Flexible telematics system and method for providing telematics to a vehicle

A method for providing telematics to a vehicle, which comprises:

• providing a user-removable telematics component with:
• a Global Positioning System (GPS) device;
• a data pump;
• and
• a short range wireless personal area network transceiver;
• communicatively connecting the telematics component to an integrated communication device of the vehicle, the integrated communication device having a memory holding a list uniquely identifying at least one mobile communication device selected from a currently paired mobile communication device, a previously paired mobile communication device, and a pre-defined mobile communication device;
• receiving at the data pump a request from the at least one mobile communication device to perform a vehicle function;
• and
• transmitting information related to the request out from the telematics component utilizing a communications path of the data pump, wherein the transmitted
• information related to the request is sent to one or more of an off-site telematics provider, a cell phone, an email, a general computing device, and a website.