GM Required OnStar Subscription Purchase

Looking at ordering a 2023 GM/GMC 6.6 gasser HD2500. I know, GM and ill-timing comments incoming.... Several dealerships have informed me that the line item of $1,500 for OnStar is NONnegotiable. Anyone know if this is correct? Am I a lone wolf for rejecting the premise that I am required to pay for this “service,” even though I do not want if, for the “Cough” privilege (“Cough”) of driving a GM truck? For over 30 years I have driven GM trucks but it looks like I may be forced to look elsewhere. For the record and for Brand & Dealership recommendations, I am 6’6”, pre-Thanksgiving 285#’s and frugal. I know that I am OLD, FAT and “POORS” so no need help me come to those realizations.lol: Thanks in advance for any new buy experiences or suggestions.

You could steer into that and become an absolute pain in the arse to OnStar. You could call them every time you get in the truck, force them to cancel that nonsense.

How much is OnStar a month?

Ask GM and if it turns out to be correct:

1 - buy another brand
2 - report the bull shite to the media
3 - tell the dealer you identify as OnStar and already have it

I’ve never had onstar.

Is it better’n’a cell phone?

MSN article from August about making it mandatory

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I have a 2019 C2500 High Country that I pay off in March. I haven't had OnStar in years..probably kept it the first year because it was a freebie, but once I got the renewal notice I cancelled it. No need for it really.

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Life's too short to waste it in a fricking car dealership talking to some weasel dick salesman.

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Tell us how you really feel.

I’m with you 100%. Was in a Ford dealership yesterday picking up my 2010 F150 from service. Had a Lightening Lariat listed MSRP at $72,000 but a dealership “treatment” of $20k. Treatment is simply their markup. Truck is selling for $92,000 and some idiot will buy it.

In give or take 6 months you will see 10k off msrp again, just be patient.

Got screwed by a dealer over a pinstripe. My son’s car was laid up at the dealer after towing it to two different dealers and getting outrageous repair estimates. Couldn’t get a part to fix it and he needed a vehicle right away so he settled for the only Bronco Sport they could get - at sticker plus $1,500 in add-on crap. This included a $299 pinstripe he didn’t want and wasn’t yet on the vehicle. We even offered to still pay the $299 for NOT adding the pinstripe. They wouldn’t do it. Before giving him the vehicle they put the pinstripe on, then told him he could return the next day to have it removed. Definitely the most ridiculous dealership I’ve ever dealt with, but we were in a bind.

Ok pard, look at Capitol Chevrolet in Austin Texas and come back and retract your Bull$hit.

I really don’t give a damn what you believe, I bought a Suburban and and Silverado from Capitol 2 years ago and when I got online to search prices and supply, they had ALL their 2022 Silverado LT’s discounted $6000 and after applying another $500 cyber cash discount that adds up to $6500 in case you can’t add.
I went to my local dealer and told him I’d bought over $110,000 in Chevy vehicles from Capitol on my last purchase and I wanted to give him a chance to keep me from driving 6 hours to Austin.
10 minutes later he came back with a buyers offer on a 2022 Silverado LT, sticker prices $54.075, my price $48,075 plus $600 Chevy Cyber cash, making my final price $50,964 with tax, title, license. I wrote him a check for $50,964.73 and drove off in my 2022 Summit White 5.3 V-8 Silverado with bucket seats, custom wheels and factory sprayed in bedliner.
And you can call bull%hit all you want while I drive around in my new Chevy.