Actually, it is a good idea to NOT program in your house as your home location at all. A better choice is to use a nearby site such as a store, church, museum, etc. You should be able to find your way home from one of those locations, but a thief wouldn't know where to go from there.

VIN # B0985

 

But wouldn't a thief be able to just look in the glove box for your registration/insurance and see your address there?

 

nice idea to not program your address into gps but since most people leave their registration and insurance card in the glove box the point is moot!

 

Oh I keep registration and insurance card in the car -- somewhere (hint not in the glove box, or console, or dash cubby). Find it if you can.

VIN # B0985

 

I always use the local PD address as my home location, even on my phone.

 

and carry my insurance and registration with me. damn, where's the edit button???

 

There should be a way to do a "factory data reset" like they have on Android phones.

 

Not sure on a volt, but in my Jeep's uconnect system there is a reset option that I used to delete the PO's info. When I went to program my garage door to homelink I held down the first and third button for several seconds. The display then said something about homelink cleared. I'd imagine something very similar would apply to Chevy's lineup.

 

Last two cars I bought both had addresses and phone numbers saved. I'm willing to bet that the HomeLink for the garage door opener was still programmed as well. The evil / curious part of me wanted to drive by and hit the button just to see, but I resisted.

If I buy a used Volt I'm sure it'll make for three cars in a row that had potentially personally identifiable information on them. The Volt I'm looking at currently has addresses saved in the navigation, I haven't looked closely but I'm betting it'll take me to the POs house. If the dealer insists on riding with next time maybe I'll just tell the car to navigate to home and see where it takes us.There is still music saved on the HDD as well. I don't know if the Volt has the capability, but my current Jeep has photos of my wife and I on it as well. Jeep lets you use that stuff as sort of a background while music is playing. Be sure to blow all that personal stuff out when you get rid of your car, because the dealer certainly doesn't.