Disable Safety Connect?

I don't have safety connect, but I assume you can't cancel since it's a courtesy subscription. I assume you just don't renew/pay when it comes due. Check with your dealer about pulling fuse. I'm sure the owner's manual doesn't give that level of detail.

 

The owner's manual lists the fuses, but I'm guessing SOS (may be called Mayday on the fuse list) doesn't have a dedicated fuse. Just call and opt out (or maybe just press the SOS button).

 

Did the dealer "activate" your subscription when you took delivery? I'll bet not as you would have balked. You haven't activated it from the car so why bother doing anything? Leave it alone & discard the activation and renewal letters when they arrive. I don't believe SC is going to badger you to subscribe, certainly not like Sirius/XM.

 

Do you not have self control?? Just don't use it and let the subscription run out.

 

Perhaps, as suggested...you should do nothing and let your complementary subscription expire.

Will your AAA service recognize and respond to an accident where you may have struck a deer while on a country road, you leave the roadway and your Prius goes down an embankment and rolls over several times, leaving you injured, unconscious or incapacitated?

Safety Connect will detect a collision or rollover and automatically dispatch emergency service aid to you, and try to communicate with you via their unique cellular system to determine your circumstance. I have read where this service has saved lives. This is why I decided not to subscribe to AAA, but, as with anything else...your situation may be different.

 

Yes, the system is active but you aren't registered. SC doesn't know who bought the car until some data is forwarded from the dealer. That's when you will receive a letter asking you to register by pushing the button. Then they'll want more info & ask if you want to subscribe but they aren't pushy.

In January 2010 I tried using the system before registering. I started a thread about that. The 1st operator transfered me to a Lexus operator who wasn 't receiving my telemetry and so had no clue where I was. That operator then transfered me to a phone line. I'm irritated enough that I'm stuck in a parking lot with a brand new car that won't move and now I'm dealing with these idiots. A half hour later I finally get the car into gear & drive myself back to my dealer.

I've used SC a few times to summon police to a disabled vehicle or collision. Since I'm moving when calling the operators seem to be confused but I'm not going to sit for 5+ minutes while they fumble around to connect me to the police.

Whether you like it or not, you already paid for the hardware and the 1st year's service. BTW it seems like the clock doesn't start until you call & register so if you aren't going to use it then just don't touch the button.

 

Your dealer should have offered to register you at the time of purchase. Maybe your dealer wasn't on the ball. In Oct 09, I was the first one my dealer did, and it took them two tries to get it right, so you may have been early enough that they didn't know what to do. I didn't have to do anything special to activate. But if you had done it then, it would have been working when you first used it.

 

Mine was also registered at the dealership. The salesman and I went to a computer and brought up the SOS registration screen. After answering a bunch of questions and making up a password that was it. Got a letter and those plastic things for the keychain and a credit card size one a month later. BTW this was the first one my salesman did.

 

I don't like the idea of having a cell phone(which what safety connect seems to be) about 8 inches from my head. Its shooting RF radiation constantly when the car is on, I suppose. I'd like to disable it or inactivate it.

 

Any like disabling it I also would like to disable it