Onstar is considered a safety feature in GM Vehicles. But still, some people may disagree with this and want to disable it from their vehicle. Besides, there may be many reasons to disable it from the system. Anyway, disabling Onstar may not be any cause of risk, but you have to do it at your own risk. Today, we will show you how to disable Onstar GPS tracking in vehicles.
Let me clarify: Onstar keeps tracking your device with the help of its module. So, you must turn it off to remove your vehicle from tracking through Onstar’s GPS. So, the tutorial on how to turn off OnStar tracking is for you.
How to Disable Onstar GPS Tracking
Regarding such a guide, OnStar has not mentioned anything in their blog support. We try our best to visit the different forum sites and YouTube videos for our OnStar users. After a few hours, we found concluding remarks that may help you disable OnStar Tracking.
1st Findings
Based on the gm-trucks forum replied by GETGONE, you can turn off OnStar tracking by disconnecting the antenna there. For this, you must remove the driver-side A-pillar trim, where you can find the antenna connection around 6 inches from the top pillar. So, you can easily disconnect the antenna to disable Onstat GPS Tracking.
Similarly, you can also choose to disable location services from the radio menu. You can also try this first method to disable tracking from Onstar to your vehicle.
2nd Findings
Our second finding is similar to the tutorial ‘How to Disable OnStar’ in this method. Too, we have to disable the OnStar entirely by removing the module placed in the vehicle’s tire (how to disable onstar gps tracking).
Before that, I also recommend this 2nd method for security reasons. Based on the one member, ‘student13’ from gm-volt, with permission or court (court order), GPS tracking may be turned on, although you may not use the service to track you. So, if you don’t want to be tracked by your expired or non-used subscription service, you must do it altogether. Here’s how,
- First, turn off the vehicle,
- Open the trunk of your vehicle and remove the tire where the OnStar Module is attached,
- Remove all the wires connected there; for this, you can unplug all three wires connected to the OnStar Module,
- Now, it will disconnect your car from the OnStar Module to disconnect the communication and tracking.
- After that, start assembling your tire as before; that’s it.
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With this process, your car is now disconnected from the cellular network and GPS. After this, the factory navigation function and the speed limit display will not work.