Does anyone have Onstar in the DR and does it work? The stated policy is that is does not work or is not supported in the DR. However, as with other services, sometimes a service is not supported or guaranteed in the DR, but in reality, it does work. If someone has it, can you tell me if it is reliable, or are there many locations where the vehicle cannot be tracked?
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Onstar in the DR
If you are concerned about being tracked, whether or a not a vehicle is equiped with an Onstar system should be the very least of your worries.
Cell phones, air tags and GPS boxes are far more effective.
No, I am not worried about being tracked. I WANT to track my car.
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OnStar Coverage in Dominican Republic
The short answer: OnStar coverage in the Dominican Republic is very limited or non-existent.Here's what we know:
Primary Coverage Area:- OnStar services are primarily available in "U.S. and Canada only"
- The coverage maps and services appear to focus on North American cellular networks
- OnStar relies on cellular and GPS networks for its services
- The Dominican Republic would need compatible cellular infrastructure and agreements with OnStar
- Most OnStar features require connection to OnStar's call centers and data networks
What This Means for You:
If you're traveling to DR with an OnStar-equipped vehicle:- Emergency services likely won't work
- Remote vehicle commands (lock/unlock, start) probably won't function
- Vehicle tracking may not be available
- Navigation services might not work
- Local GPS tracking devices that work with Dominican cellular networks
- International roaming data plans for smartphone-based tracking
- Local car rental companies often have their own tracking systems
Bottom Line:
OnStar is designed primarily for the US and Canadian markets. If you need vehicle tracking or emergency services in the Dominican Republic, you'll likely need alternative solutions that work with local cellular networks.
I use this one, can send you a direct contact, let me know if this is what you're looking for.
Trip control, speed, route review, live tracking via the app/browser, etc.
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Thank you. This is exactly the kind of useful information that I was searching for. I sent an inquiry on their webpage, but if you have a direct contact to share with me, that would be better.
A real life experience regarding the DR AND USA...CHAT, GOOGLE, SAFARI tells you about the form 1-30 (US citizen summoning a family member to US. WHAT CHAT DOESN'T TELL YOU is how one can shape and bend the rules. It tells very little about short cuts and exceptions. It's cut and dry.
Like the good gentleman from Jacksonville said, slip an Airtag somewhere secure and discrete and there you go. Why sign up for some dinosaur like OnStar?
My best friend had a perfect son. Very intelligent never did anything wrong. He put one of these services in his car that monitored everything. His location, his speed everything. It turns out the son was not that perfect. The services can tell you how fast the car is going, where it is, etc.. it turns out that many times the car was going over 100 mph and the car was not where it should have been. Having said all that I have the same situation where I want to know exactly where my car is and how fast it is going, and whether or not it has been returned at the time that I requested. I initially requested information about OnStar, but I am not committed to their service and I don’t know whether it will work in the Dominican Republic. Another poster gave me a great suggestion for a service that works well in the country. I will give it a shot. OnStar’s stated policy is that it does not work in the DR. there are other services that do not commit to being functional in the DR. My best example is SiriusXM radio. They said it was not functional there a few years ago, but I bought a radio, and it indeed did work. You could buy an apple AirTag and it will work as long as there is another Apple devices nearby but sometimes in the mountains that does not work. I was looking for something that works 24/7 no matter where they are in the DR. Another poster gave me a suggestion and I will experiment with that one.
An Airtag is dependent on another Apple device nearby. If that was in my car, it could be lost in the mountains for months before it pinged on another IPhone, and by that time, the battery could be dead.
after max. 3 days you will receive a notification, if you have an iPhone, that an airtag has been located nearby. So no anonymous/invisible tracking system.
See my response on #18
an airtag will do his job for a day or so. e.g. if you bring your car for maintenance to a garage.
It's a sad situation that there would be a need to track people like this. Also interesting to note that any of these services, whatever tracking, can be deactivated. You don't have to be an MIT grad to figure out OnStar