Lost my onstar excitement.
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Lost my onstar excitement. - 10/22/2007 4:57:03 PM
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mh307
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Ok, i'm going to poke some fun at myself here. 
On a very recent trail ride, my uncle, his wife and son in their jeep rubicon, and myself and a female co-pilot in my h3 were driving on dirt roads for several hours. It had gotten dim, then dark, VERY fast, and we had been driving for at least an hour in the darkness... Worried that we would come out near the lake again, i didn't want to go further the wrong direction and have to make the 3 hour drive back...so...i hit the blue onstar button. The conversatioin went something like this...
ME: You have me on GPS right?
OP: Yes.
ME: Do you have me on a road?
OP: No.
ME: Can you tell me how far from a road i am?
OP: No...i don't see how i could even get you to one. There's nothing around you. You're in the middle of nowhere.
ME: Thanks.
Well, after this i almost turned around, but after 4 or 5 more minutes of dirt road....can you imagine this...PAVED ROADS!! Should have been well known too. Thanks onstar.
So if the new onstar commercial involves the operator saying...hey look buddy, you're screwed. You know it was me. 
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THEN:07 H3 Adventure: 17" Ultras, 315/70 BFG's
NOW:08 Dodge Ram Mega Cab 4x4
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RE: Lost my onstar excitement. - 10/22/2007 4:58:27 PM
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hilljob26
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thats funny........
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RE: Lost my onstar excitement. - 10/22/2007 5:23:01 PM
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Doc Olds
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Yep. I don't need no stinking Onstar.
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RE: Lost my onstar excitement. - 10/22/2007 5:47:52 PM
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GorillaH2
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Onstar is too expensive for what it does and when a person really needs it, it usually doesnt help out enough...this has nothing to do with this but did anyone hear about there being a law of a black box in your car that everytime you go over the speedlimit it would give you a ticket and it could actually stop your car?
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RE: Lost my onstar excitement. - 10/22/2007 5:51:13 PM
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mh307
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Must not be in effect yet...cuz i prob wouldn't have a license...lol. Big brother...hmm...if they did do that i think i'd cut the box out. Or just buy an older car. Oh, and i didn't pay for the onstar. It's the free year. The phone is worth it though. I always can talk on it, when my cell doesn't get service. (Like constantly)
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THEN:07 H3 Adventure: 17" Ultras, 315/70 BFG's
NOW:08 Dodge Ram Mega Cab 4x4
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RE: Lost my onstar excitement. - 10/22/2007 10:15:21 PM
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Steve #1
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I wouldn't expect directions on a dirt road, but they should be able to tell you in what direction the paved road is.
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ORIGINAL: GorillaH2
Onstar is too expensive for what it does and when a person really needs it, it usually doesnt help out enough...this has nothing to do with this but did anyone hear about there being a law of a black box in your car that everytime you go over the speedlimit it would give you a ticket and it could actually stop your car?
The "black box" is not related to OnStar, but the BCM (I believe). It has a buffer of a few seconds that is stored after the airbags deploy. It stores information such as speed, break input, throttle input, steering input...... There is information on it in the owner’s manual.
As for stopping your car, it won't be available until 09 or 10 and will only be activated in conjunction with police in stolen vehicle cases.
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RE: Lost my onstar excitement. - 10/23/2007 1:38:37 AM
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671H3
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Funny Story! I disabled my onstar when I bought a double din player.
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RE: Lost my onstar excitement. - 10/23/2007 10:24:47 AM
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RealJeep
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I love OnStar and had a similar problem. I was in the middle of the Green Swamp in FL and nowhere near where I wanted to be. I too mashed the blue button and asked basically the same question and got the same LAME answer. I told the operator to ZOOM OUT which I knew they could do and heard Oh!, There you are. Sigh....Low bid on the operator contract again....I was only about 4 miles from the hard road but when you page OnStar it always shows you at full zoom in. Any operator with more than 2 days experience should have known that.
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