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DPris -> RE: OnStar Disabling (7/6/2008 5:04:50 PM)
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Greetings,
I''m here simply looking for information, with no other agenda beyond removing an undesirable feature in a new car.
This week we bought an ''08 HHR. For various reasons, non of which are either illegal or paranoid, my wife & I both want the OnStar gone. We are both in our mid-50s, I''m a retired cop and she''s been with her PD for 34 years. We are law-abiding people, but come from an older generation & backgrounds that leave us unimpressed by most of the extraneous frills on the car. We like the HHR, had to pay extra to have the one with most of the configuration we wanted shipped in from 500 miles south in another state.
I am not knocking the car.
But- we never wanted anything to do with OnStar, and while we did know a free one-year subscription was included, we understood we would be the ones to activate it. That meant we could (and did) choose not to activate it. Today, in going through the OnStar papers that came with the manual, I found several items in the "agreement" that we do not agree with, and called OnStar to make sure they cancel any form of connection with us and our car, officially. That''s when I found out the dealer had kindly activated it for us, and further that OnStar will not de-activate it until the introductory period of one year has ended. Period.
I was hung up on twice, despite using a civil tone of voice, and told there was no supervisor available to speak to about this apparently unchangeable OnStar policy.
We specified clearly with our Chebby dealer about what we wanted & did not want in this new car, and passed on other options such as satellite radio that we couldn''t care less about. We were told OnStar came standard on all GMs & we''d be stuck with it. Based on our understanding that we''d be able to not use it, we reluctantly accepted it and bought the HHR.
It''s just kinda a personal quirk. I don''t like people tiptoing through my vehicles, either physically or electronically, and want OnStar out of it. The fact that they exhibit such arrogance in telling me they''ll maintain contact with my car whether I want them to or not only increases my desire to avoid them completely.
Preliminary to getting an attorney involved, I''m hoping somebody here can give me some simple tips on how to disable OnStar in an ''08 HHR. In looking through the Internet for more info, I find a number of entries about disconnecting this or that in other model GMs, and a couple suggestions on re-wiring & soldering the module, but I don''t want to get into anything that requires snipping, cutting, soldering or other physical alterations.
I''ve seen a fuse removal mentioned for other GM models, but I''m never sure what''s integrated with what in current cars & reluctant to try that for fear it may cause the transmission to drop out. I''ve seen mention of one GM owner who removed the OnStar antenna (leaving a non-weather-resistant hole I don''t want) but the OnStar system still apparently functioned without it.
It may be hard for some to understand, but we simply do not want this in our car, and if anybody can tell me how to disable it without either damaging wiring or affecting other systems, I''d be very grateful.
Thanks.
Denis
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