Originally Posted by Z28 HLR
We never ended up seeing the plant. We stopped outside of Toronto and talked to some OPP officers (Ontario Provincial Police) who said the plant was in Whitby, but we never saw it.
Thanks for the info but we had gone way past that by then.
You would tend to think that would be easy, right? Well, as it turns out, when you come across the border with Sprint you get a limited amount of data, all of which went towards the GPS to find our way across the 402, 427 (my favorite), 401, Gardner Expressway. So by then, data was gone.
So then we still had the Wi-Fi in the GMC. This all sounds nice and dandy, except AT&T does not cover Canada, so we got sporadic emails, but internet was super limited.
So, no google, no data on the laptop, so call On-Star. They transferred me to an 'ambassador' at Canada's call center, you know my friend Patrick. At that point, I'd exhausted my other options - you know - the ones that seemed so logical to you? On-Star can ALWAYS connect you to GM, and all I got was what you read in the initial post.
I did call the Canadian GM support line back by the time we got to Kingston and missed the plant. A director expressed concern and did not at all understand why this 'ambassador didn't just give an address. Today was a civic holiday in Ontario and I don't think the guy wanted to work. GM will arrange tours, help accommodate, etc. How hard is it to say, "The plant is just down the street from us!" That's right, these ambassadors work in Oshawa as well, go figure. She asked if we would come back through on our way back... I think we will go down into Vermont and back across through the US, maybe head down into PA. After today I wonder what crazy stuff would happen if either of the $70K, one year old GM vehicles broke down in Canada - I've lost faith.
Yes. The Z/28's were built in a secret plant known as Area 51.
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