Yep.

Would you enjoy having a peeping Tom look into your house all the time, or would you come outside and take care of the problem with a steel-toed boot to the ass? Disconnecting OnStar is the equivalent of the application of a steel-toed boot to someone who's spying on you.

Not even close.

Pretty close in my opinion. Having something like OnStar in my car would make me want to remove it and smash the electronics with a large sledgehammer until they're a fine sand of silicon.

Glad as hell I drive a 28-year old car that doesn't have any of that spy crap built in.

Until the day the mandate that your car will install one of them in it or you are somehow forced by circumstances to have a newer car.

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In that case, I'd f***ing well walk or move to a third-world country that either has fewer rules, or where you can bribe your way out of rules. With any luck though, the US will go the way of Greece before then and we'll see mass firings of petty rule-making bureaucratic scumbags. Without pension. Just a kick onto the street, like a canine with sarcoptic mites.

As far as a newer car, there are plenty of cars made in the last 28 years that DON'T have this kind of system, so I'll have plenty to choose from.

Then again, I'm a tech person, so this situation may spell a business opportunity. Selling "altered" spy devices to Mafia, drug-dealers, marital cheaters, etc. In short, people who are more honest than the bureaucratic pigs who may see fit to mandate wholesale espionage on the public.

exactly.i have onstar in 2 vehicles and want to disable both of em.

I don't think it is practical if it is woven into the technology which is why I wondered about a kill switch to self destruct.

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99 E300 Turbodiesel
91 Vette with 383 motor
05 Polaris Sportsman 800 EFI
06 Polaris Sportsman 500 EFI
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Red
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Yellow
04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
11 Harley Davidson 883 SuperLow

No car currently built would fail to operate in an area without cell service. Leave the OnCrap connected. Castrate it by removing it's ability to communicate (I.e. short its antenna lead to ground). But reading a thread on a vette forum that was linked here, it's a separate box at least in current Vettes. And fully removable assuming some precautions are taken.