XLRATING
Seasoned Member
- Joined
- Jul 10, 2011
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- Location
- Virginia
- My XLR/V(s)
- 2006 Infrared XLR (Beauty); 2008 GT500 (Beast); 2007 Black XLR-V (Victor)
Sometimes OnStar is just irritating
So apparently OnStar now does robo calls to you, which really is unwanted. While driving home yesterday in my CTS, I was listening to a traffic report when the radio went silent. Huh? I looked at the display & saw "hang up," so I figured someone is calling me (can't say I'm not sharp!
). I say "hello?" to myself & an OnStar robo call starts reminding me that I have OnStar (thanks, hadn't forgotten yet) & that I can get navigation info from it (thanks, I have nav already). It then hangs up on me at which point (1) I've missed the traffic, & (2) the car stops recognizing my iPod, maybe just a coincidence but I had to start turning stuff off & on to get it to work again. 
Also, when we signed up the OnStar the rep congratulated us on our purchase, but then proceeded to give a guilt trip about how lousy her car was (although newer than the one I just traded) & she wished she could get a new one but it was underwater. Not really what I wanted to hear when I was just trying to activate OnStar.
I think OnStar is great for emergencies, but other than that I wish it would let me be!
So apparently OnStar now does robo calls to you, which really is unwanted. While driving home yesterday in my CTS, I was listening to a traffic report when the radio went silent. Huh? I looked at the display & saw "hang up," so I figured someone is calling me (can't say I'm not sharp!
). I say "hello?" to myself & an OnStar robo call starts reminding me that I have OnStar (thanks, hadn't forgotten yet) & that I can get navigation info from it (thanks, I have nav already). It then hangs up on me at which point (1) I've missed the traffic, & (2) the car stops recognizing my iPod, maybe just a coincidence but I had to start turning stuff off & on to get it to work again. Also, when we signed up the OnStar the rep congratulated us on our purchase, but then proceeded to give a guilt trip about how lousy her car was (although newer than the one I just traded) & she wished she could get a new one but it was underwater. Not really what I wanted to hear when I was just trying to activate OnStar.
I think OnStar is great for emergencies, but other than that I wish it would let me be!
just a thought
Purchased a couple of wall hangings from Diane at carartwork.biz and sent them out to Customs by Mike (ThePowderCoater.com) to have them painted to match each XLR. Really dressed up the garage. 
my car. My baby has her life in my sisters hands. The other day while i was riding around. and when i was going over to my friends house to see if he wanted to go to the car event, i forgot to go in the other entrance because the one entrance has higher speed bumps then the other. So i think i scraped bottom 
. Whats the saying Do it once,watch out, do it 2x thought you'd learn your lesson. So i will know not to do it a third. But then i went to put gas in at a station that shares a shopping center parking lot. I headed over to the entrance/exit by the light and ouch. What did they do but add high speed bumps there too. No place is safe for our low cars anymore.
