I was going to say the same thing. You buy the vents and have to figure a way out to incorporate OE in a work around of their aftermarket parts. Though it looks sick, the extra work makes it less desirable
Cool....that just means the GOV can't track your car anymore! Seriously, this vent company should have included extensive instructions / wire extension cables / and brackets. You did a great job, but a very unprofessional company that sells these things! You need to put this company's name, product name, and part number in your YT title........ so no other buyer will be uninformed.
A lot of these aftermarket companies are not professional and can’t really afford a good design engineer. They leave it to the consumers to figure it out! The company is C7 Carbon. I’ll put it in the description. It’s on the Part I & II of the series.
Could it be that only one antenna needs to be disconnected to disable OnStar communications? Maybe the GPS antenna can be left connected? Many C8 owners are now wondering how to disable OnStar since GM was sued for selling data for insurance companies. Several days ago nav on my 23 C8 stopped working unless I agree to let GM sell my privacy. I want OnStar gone!
Thanks for the comment. I don’t feel like opening up the antenna again, but you should try to play with it and see if you can disable OnStar and still retains GPS. I don’t believe you can though….
Hello @ktgarage1126 Kudos on the daring and unique mod, it looks great. I randomly found your video when I was searching for information about how to delete OnStar on the C8 and no videos discussing this could be found but you do seem to touch on this and now have some knowledge about the topic. Can you please share more information or even a follow up video, I will subscribe just to see what you have to say on the topic. I want to completely disable/delete OnStar and it seems by unplugging these modules, hidden under the fenders, you were able to achieve this, right? I think you said that the downside is that the other GPS functions in the car will also be disable by unplugging these modules, like navigation. Is this correct? Couldn't you just use android auto or apple car play to get navigation/gps functions back on your infotainment system? Is there any way you could test this and make a video about it? What other features or things do not work correctly when the modules are unplugged? What about front lift memory functions? I know lots of people do not like or want OnStar so I'm sure if you made a video specific to this topic it would be very appreciated and likely get many views but people need to know the process and what the downsides are. Thank you
Hi. The biggest downside for not having OnStar is losing your GPS. This means you can’t track where your vehicle is anymore. I know that insurance will cover when your vehicle is stolen, but will all the mods I put in, I don’t want to do them all over again with another C8. Yes, all you need to do is unplug the antenna cable and OnStar will no longer work. Not sure about front lift memories, but I think you will lose that as well since it rely on GPS. Any GPS related functions will be lost. I’ll do another followup video when I have sometime. Thanks for the suggestion!
I was going to say the same thing. You buy the vents and have to figure a way out to incorporate OE in a work around of their aftermarket parts. Though it looks sick, the extra work makes it less desirable
Cool....that just means the GOV can't track your car anymore! Seriously, this vent company should have included extensive instructions / wire extension cables / and brackets. You did a great job, but a very unprofessional company that sells these things! You need to put this company's name, product name, and part number in your YT title........ so no other buyer will be uninformed.
These fender vents are from C7Carbon
A lot of these aftermarket companies are not professional and can’t really afford a good design engineer. They leave it to the consumers to figure it out! The company is C7 Carbon. I’ll put it in the description. It’s on the Part I & II of the series.
Could it be that only one antenna needs to be disconnected to disable OnStar communications? Maybe the GPS antenna can be left connected? Many C8 owners are now wondering how to disable OnStar since GM was sued for selling data for insurance companies. Several days ago nav on my 23 C8 stopped working unless I agree to let GM sell my privacy. I want OnStar gone!
Thanks for the comment. I don’t feel like opening up the antenna again, but you should try to play with it and see if you can disable OnStar and still retains GPS. I don’t believe you can though….
Hello @ktgarage1126 Kudos on the daring and unique mod, it looks great. I randomly found your video when I was searching for information about how to delete OnStar on the C8 and no videos discussing this could be found but you do seem to touch on this and now have some knowledge about the topic. Can you please share more information or even a follow up video, I will subscribe just to see what you have to say on the topic. I want to completely disable/delete OnStar and it seems by unplugging these modules, hidden under the fenders, you were able to achieve this, right? I think you said that the downside is that the other GPS functions in the car will also be disable by unplugging these modules, like navigation. Is this correct? Couldn't you just use android auto or apple car play to get navigation/gps functions back on your infotainment system? Is there any way you could test this and make a video about it? What other features or things do not work correctly when the modules are unplugged? What about front lift memory functions? I know lots of people do not like or want OnStar so I'm sure if you made a video specific to this topic it would be very appreciated and likely get many views but people need to know the process and what the downsides are. Thank you
Hi. The biggest downside for not having OnStar is losing your GPS. This means you can’t track where your vehicle is anymore. I know that insurance will cover when your vehicle is stolen, but will all the mods I put in, I don’t want to do them all over again with another C8. Yes, all you need to do is unplug the antenna cable and OnStar will no longer work. Not sure about front lift memories, but I think you will lose that as well since it rely on GPS. Any GPS related functions will be lost. I’ll do another followup video when I have sometime. Thanks for the suggestion!
I don't like it, so no craziness anxiety on my part..
Thanks for leaving the feedback. These type of mods is not for everyone!