Onstar is a joke. If you feel safe when the airbags deploy and someone asks you if your ok. LOL.. What a laugh. OK so u tell them no. OK well send someone out to you. MOST OF THE TIME it gives INCORRECT INFO as to where you are located. I am in law enforcement and what a joke onstar is. Ask your local dispatch and find out. Read law enforecment forums and ask about it to see how great it is.
From one forum
"I can tell you the few dealings I have had with on star did not go very well, I have had to take reports for 3 vehicles that had on star and it doesn't go as smooth as they show on commercials. 2 of the vehicles couldn't even be tracked and another took 45 minutes before they could start tracking it so it was already way outside DC. I guess for unlocking your doors or calling an ambulance it is good but so much for finding it once stolen."
ANd another
"We got a call of an Air bag deployment from onstar this past weekend, and they only had the vicinity of where the deployment was and no contact with the driver, we were dispatched originally 2 blocks away until a 911 caller told us the car in question was farther south and had someone pinned inside it. We got there with the new directions and had FD extricate the guy, but now I know why everyone hates onstar."
http://www.911jobforums.com/vB/showthread.php3?t=46817&highlight=onstar
LOL
they created me getting bounced around a squad trying to get to the call and taking our clover leafs code 3 at 60 busting tale up n down the highway, i thought for sure i was gunna get a concussion or car sickness before we got there..... the best part was that the onstar module had broken during the accident so at least i didn't have to hear them when i was in the car.
Well of course they did. That's the most important part.
We recovered a Lo-Jack last night on a 2004 Chevy Suburban and all we could say was good thing it didn't have onstar. No one here Likes onstar.
another
Yeah, I just took a call from them a few minutes ago. They gave me a state road number. We havent used road numbers in over 20 years. They need to update their system.
They werent too good with anything other than on this road, south of this other road. Not a big help. Kinda strange, the other times I talked to them, they gave me, fairly exact locations. Maybe I just got lucky on those calls.
Never did find this stupid car. Had a panic alarm go off, with no voice tranmissions inside the vehicle. Then get stuck on hold when trying to call them back.
I have changed my opinion of OnStar. I am not liking them so much.
ANother
I have a question about Onstar. If we have a report of an armed carjacking, with a victim doa on scene from gsw, WHY wont they give dispatchers/officers GPS on car jacked vehicle?!?!?! We actually had this happen recently. Onstar told us they could only give that information to the vehicle owner, and he was laying there DOA! Took 45 minutes to get the information, when if we got it when we asked, the liklyhood of actually apprehending the suspect was alot greater. As it was, the veh was found abandoned when we got the location. This is crazy!!!!!
This is all from Law enforcment forums. If you need to feel safe to hear a voice. ARE YOU OK.. Something is wrong with you. Do a google search of onstar and see what you get. Yeah the police did show up but most likely 5-15 more min later then what it should have been because of all the bad info.