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Just sharing this with people who don't want onstar communicating with your vehicle. The fuse feature in my case has not worked. Not on the Silverado or the new corvette. The vehicle is still trackable. However there is good news. There is a fairly simple mod that will let you retain your airbags and all the other features that are shut down by pulling the fuse.

 

Step 1 pull of the plastic trim surrounding the radio.

 

Step 2 remove the 4 7mm screws around the radio.

 

Step 3 pop out radio.

 

Step 4 locate onstar box and remove the 2 white plugs and maroon antenna plug.

 

Step 5 pop out module and take it to your work bench.

 

Step 6 remove the Allen or star bits on the bottom of the module. There are 5 I believe. Pull the casing apart.

 

Step 7 pull the board directly out towards you.

 

Step 8 you will see a small board held in with 3 black star bits it has the antenna plug attached to it. The motherboard was originally plugged into it. Take the 3 small star screws out remove and toss it in your pile of spare parts. Put it all back together.

 

Step 9 it's now impossible to be tracked by onstar or law enforcement. This works for the new c7's as well as the new trucks. You now have no warning lights. You get to keep all your airbags and traction. You do lose nav unfortunately. Onstar and the rest of the truck believe will function as normal. Push the onstar button twice and it will tell you the call can't be completed at this time. This mod takes about 8-10 minutes.

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So your in dash Nav is disabled from this?

My nav is still working. Truck still tracks on the map. However the nav icon has a slash thru it. Mod simply deletes onstars ability to communicate with the vehicle. The color of the antenna plug indicates a cellular antenna. However even with just the antenna unplugged the unit can still receive and send data. So that's why the entire cellular board needs to come out. I'm unsure why the nav icon has a slash thru it.

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So I just pulled mine out of my 2018 Danali which has two different antenna ports. What two antenna's did I unplug? Also I just to confirm, with this removed onstar will no longer receive data from my truck about location or speed or anything else but I will still be able to make and receive phone calls from onstar? 

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