Hank CallowayTHE FIELD MANUALS

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40 years under the hood · no dealer pays me

Find the spy.
Take your data back.

There's a box buried in your car with its own cellular antenna, and it's been talking about you since before you made your first payment. Two plain-English field manuals: one gets it out of your car, the other gets your data back from the people who already bought it.

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Kill the Spy

Field Manual 01 · 40 pages

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The three ways to silence it — fuse, antenna or plug
Ford, Toyota, RAM & GM walkthroughs
Spot a tracker somebody planted on you
Exactly what you keep and what you lose

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The Complete Privacy Kit

Both manuals · 74 pages

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Both field manuals, start to finish
Get the spy out and your data back
The half-job problem solved

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Take Back Your Data

Field Manual 02 · 34 pages

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Pull, dispute and freeze your file
What the fine print really claims
Wipe your car before you sell it
The laws actually coming

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§ 01 — Why it matters

You paid for the car. You're still the product.

Your car has a cellular modem built in. It knows where you park, what time you leave, how hard you brake, and how long you sat outside somebody's house. You never signed a thing that said it could — and turning off "data sharing" in the dashboard menu doesn't stop the hardware.

This isn't a conspiracy theory. It's a paper trail: a federal order, a state settlement, a Senate inquiry, and one careful driver whose own file ran 258 pages.

25/25Car brands failed
a privacy review

258Pages in one
driver's file

21%His insurance
premium jump

61¢Paid per car
for a year of trips

Figures are drawn from the books and their cited sources — a 2023 review of 25 car brands, reporting on the GM/OnStar data sales, and a US Senate inquiry. Every claim inside is tied to a named company, a signed settlement or a court filing.

Field Manual No. 01 · 40 pages

Kill the Spy in Your Car

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The hands-on half. Find the tracking module your car company built in, and shut it down — three methods compared, then brand by brand. Written so you can do it in your own driveway with a flashlight, or hand the book to a shop and have them do it in twenty minutes.

1The snitch under your dash
2Is someone tracking you on purpose?
3The three ways to silence it
4Ford: the easy one
5Toyota: the booby trap
6RAM: the fortress
7GM & OnStar: the one that got caught
8Honda, Nissan, Subaru, Hyundai, Kia, VW
9Prove it to yourself
10Method table + per-brand cheat sheet

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Field Manual No. 02 · 34 pages

Take Back Your Data

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The half you can't reach with a socket set. Silencing the box stops them collecting anything new — it does nothing about the file already built on you. This is how you pull that file, dispute it, freeze it, and hand your car over without handing over your whole life.

1What the fine print actually says
2The proof: the 258-page file
3Your phone is part of the problem
4Pull, dispute & freeze your file
5Wipe it before you let it go
6The laws coming for your old car
7Bonus: the debt trap
8Broker-freeze playbook + checklists

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§ 02 — Who's telling you this

I'm Hank

"Fifty-nine years old, forty of them under the hood. No dealer pays me, no manufacturer, no sponsor — so I'll tell you exactly what they won't."

I spent forty years turning wrenches, the last stretch of it on a dealership service floor, until I'd seen enough of what the business does to the customer. Then I walked out and started telling on them.

I write these the way I'd explain it leaning on your fender. Three promises run through both books: I always give you the downside — every method costs you something and I say what before you touch a thing. No tinfoil hats — every claim is a named part, a real company, a signed settlement or a court filing. And it's your call, not mine and sure not the dealer's. I lay the cards face-up. What you do with them is your business.

— Hank Calloway

§ 03 — Fair questions

Before you buy

I'm not handy. Can I actually do this?

Yes. The easiest method is pulling a fuse — no tools, no mechanical background, and it's reversible in seconds. For the deeper work the book tells you plainly which jobs are simple and which are worth handing to an independent shop. Any decent shop can do this in about twenty minutes if you show them the chapter.

Is any of this illegal?

In the US there's no federal mandate requiring these connected services, so disabling them is legal. What the book is careful about is the difference between legal and wise: I flag every safety trade-off, note where removing a lender's device could breach your finance contract, and tell you plainly never to touch safety, emissions or anti-theft systems. Laws vary by state — check yours.

Will it stop my car working, or void my warranty?

Your car starts and drives exactly the same — engine, radio, backup camera, sensors and airbags all run on separate systems. What you lose is connected features: the manufacturer app, remote start via the app, over-the-air updates, and on some brands the automatic crash call. On warranty: the "it voids everything" line is overblown, and the book explains the one real, narrow exclusion so you can't be bluffed by a service writer.

Does this cover my brand?

Ford, Toyota, RAM and GM get full brand-by-brand chapters. Honda, Nissan, Subaru, Hyundai, Kia and VW get their own section — the method ladder is the same, only the service name changes. And the three core methods work on essentially any modern car with a telematics module.

What do I actually get?

PDFs you download the moment you pay. Read them on a phone, tablet or computer, or print them and take them to the shop. The kit includes both manuals — 74 pages total.

What if it's not for me?

You get your money back. Seven days, no questions asked. If it doesn't earn its keep, you shouldn't pay for it.