Do strong magnets influence my car?

[Ferala]

I am planning to buy a very strong magnet (that can carry 600kg) but I am afraid that it will somehow negatively influence my car when I lie it in the back. Maybe the batteries?

Does any of you know if it will negatively impact anything?

 

[jrweiss98020]

Put it on the crossbar at the top of the trunk, just forward of the opening. Should not interfere with anything there...

 

[rpiotro]

Where did you plan on putting it? In the trunk? Away from most ferrous metal but too close to the motor.

Is it packaged in any way? I could just see the UPS guy "Hey mister, I have a package for you but it must be really heavy. I can't pick it up from the floor of my truck."

 

[rpiotro]

Put it on the crossbar at the top of the trunk, just forward of the opening. Should not interfere with anything there...

Isn't that steel?

 

[AmokTime]

You know what I would worry about? If you put it in the car and it zapped onto a ferromagnetic car component and you couldn’t pull it loose again.

 

[Sophias_dad]

You know what I would worry about? If you put it in the car and it zapped onto a ferromagnetic car component and you couldn’t pull it loose again.

Such things are usually packaged in enough spacers so that sort of thing doesn't happen. I wouldn't be screwing with them, anyway.

 

[Gauss Guzzler]

Yeah, Neodymium is no joke. A piece the size of a poker chip could injure you and would be very difficult to remove from steel. Something the size that OP is talking about needs to be in a box and you have to have a good plan before taking it out. That said, it wouldn't affect the car even if you did throw it in there loose, other than the dents, scratches, and severed fingers it collected along the way.

 

[S4WRXTTCS]

I would suggest using a car with a carburetor.

A magnet of that size will has a chance of corrupting the data in one of the many microcontrollers in a car.

Edit: I was going off the assumption that it was a much larger magnet.

 

[_Redshift_]

Nope. Nope. Nope!

Have it delivered. Better still, have them magnetize it in your work area.

 

[KenC]

Put it on your front license plate, and have it pull your 3 forward when you drive.

 

[ZenRockGarden]

The ones in your rear motor stators do! Sorry, had to go there.

 

[jrweiss98020]

Isn't that steel?

Yes. That's why the magnet will stick. Just slide it off when you get home.

 

[Bouba]

I bought one of them...I thought it it might be a way to retrieve an anchor if I ever lost one...it came all the way from China wrapped in foam inside a small cardboard box. It wasn’t attracted to any metal while in its box but it’s pretty powerful when unwrapped !!
I decided not put it in the boat because of the compass and I wouldn’t put it in the Tesla for similar reason...but I suspect it’s perfectly safe because it came a long way either by sea (could have been a container with thousands of them! Or perhaps it came on a plane!

 

[advocate8]

put a piece of blanket under and stick it on top of the trunk lid.

 

[Ferala]

Actually geocaching, but as the geocache is in the water and it is made of metal you are right it is effectively magnet fishing.

 

[Sophias_dad]

Actually geocaching, but as the geocache is in the water and it is made of metal you are right it is effectively magnet fishing.

Holy overkill, batman! Sounds like you need a magnet that can lift ~5kg, not one that can lift ~600. I'd suggest you rethink your purchase choice. Super strong magnets are super dangerous!. At least at 5kg you won't lose a finger or have an explosion of neodymium fragments.

 

[rpiotro]

Yes. That's why the magnet will stick. Just slide it off when you get home.

It may not be that simple. It sounds like a pretty powerful magnet. If it was easy to slide off it would also easily slide off in a crash.