TIP: Press the dash button twice rapidly and it will hang up.

Maybe it's because I live in the City and I live in Canada that I never had problem with mine. The only ****ty thing is that the minutes are soo dang expensive.

ONSTAR is like an insurance, you probably won't ever use it, but it's there when you absolutely need it.

I'm renewing mine next year just for that reason.

 

I hear ya khoolhandz!! I have had AAA for over 25 years and last year was the first time I needed them. It was in a snowstorm and had a dead truck! Glad I had it then!

 

I wish that Onstar was a bit more affordable. Personally $8 - $10 a month seems like a reasonable fee for an "insurance policy" I never use. $15 is too much money for the service and $35 is WAY too much for navigation (I'd just buy a Magellan or something for that money). The handsfree phone is cool but I'd much rather have an integrated bluetooth option so I could use my own carrier. I let the subscription in my last car expire after the complimentary year since I didn't ever use it.

I had an interesting experience with Onstar yesterday when I pulled my new CTS out of the garage and ejected one of the CDs...I went to load a new CD and the loading was interrupted by a message on the screen saying I needed to call Onstar to complete the installation and enable all functions ( I had just talked to them two weeks earlier after buying my car and went through the setup and preferences so I could get my free 30 minutes of talk time). I pushed the Onstar button, talked to the rep, and listened while he tried to sell me 100 minutes of talk time and get a credit card number from me to have on record. He already had all my info from before (but no CC number) so my gut hunch is that the call was a spam message to sell me something and obtain my card number so they can keep billing me when my initial year expires...it's pretty lame when you get "popup windows" while driving in your car!

 

Yes that how it works they gave me a great deal on cell min after my free 100 ran out which i never used. I gave them my card for the new min but it a trick to get your card that's why they gave me a great deal. So now my card is on file when renewal comes up the automatically do it that what they did to me this year.

 

If I am not mistaken and correct me if I am wrong...I believe the OnStar manual/instructions say to push the phone button ON and OFF to use the phone feature...(we teachers tend to be a bit **** when it comes to reading the directions)

I thought OnStar was cool when I 1st got it (OK, I am somewhat easily amused sometimes) and I am not paying for it yet either. I am now finding that I have used very few cell mins, and I have a lot left - don't ask me why?? I called OnStar when the head job issue 1st came to light while idling and all I got was, "you have had an engine misfire" (DUH what the H does that mean??) and to proceed to your nearest dealer..period. Not a lot of Hummer dealers in the mountains. Hummer has a roadside assistance service for the duration of the warranty, and I have had AAA at $99/yr for 13 yrs which covers one when in any vehicle...that being said, WHO needs OnStar?? I am thinking this is a (not so) handy dandy little feature to have just to say you have it and it doesn't provide all that much extra for the $$ it costs...so...renew or not to renew??? As for "cell suckage" - Nextel sucks the BIG one royally..gotta love that PTT feature tho..so they have me by the OO's until something better comes out. [:@]

 

verizon has the PTT feature too now, plus you can add your hummer phone onto it like another line, $9.99 a month. The main thing I like about onstar is that in case of an emergency they will contact help and send them to your EXACT location. Might not seem like much but if your alone on a dark backroad and for example hit ice and lose control smacking a tree, onstar will call you once your airbags deploy then call help...could save your life. To me $20 a month is cheap to pay knowing I have someone looking out for my wife and son when I can't be there.

 

Yes, I am aware of Verizon's PTT feature...however down here in south FL, his agency had a push to go Verizon PTT for cost factors and they found in experimenting with it that the service/coverage was NOT good..AND they get priority service over civilians due to being in an "emergency respond status." (ie., during last year's hurricane Wilma which was rather destructive...he had Nextel service and I did not - GRRRRR!) Now perhaps Verizon has changed a good deal in the last year or is better in other areas...????

You DO raise a good point with regard to OnStar...these are the things I want to hear to know when the time comes if I feel it's worth keeping.

 

but mrs. wyfe, theres two phone buttons! The one that is handy only goes ON and the one that is OFF is really far away...

(i was the student that always pointed out that one thing the teachers seemed to overlook )

 

no...that never happened!! We all know that teachers are PERFECT

 

Oh Lordy Me! And here I have been using the mirror buttons all along...should I have [sm=icon_rtfm.gif] a little more closely??
And as for you ....you were probably the little smartiepants I put in the corner in time out all the time! HAHA just kidding...I'm not that OLD! [8D]