I had a similar experience with Ingineer only mine was much worse. I posted an even-tempered and detailed thread about it here six months ago but mods deleted it.
I am highly technical and a good engineer, and knew exactly what I was getting into with a salvage car. I bought two cars built within a month of one another,
and repaired one with the other. I was the first to part out a car here and made a good deal of money, in fact $10k more than I'd paid for the two cars. Although, now parts are fairly plentiful so that's not possible anymore. Btr_ftw got his first parts price list from me. I sold parts to WizKid and many others, but I always
gave parts to Ingineer and we had a decent (if turbulent) relationship for years.
So, I am a well-educated man, but in this case I was always walking on eggs, and enduring unprovoked barrages of insults and temper. Being raised in the South I just don't do with that.
Ultimately I had an HV fault and narrowed it down to the A/C system. (With Ingineer's help) I developed a completely novel way of fixing it and shared that vastly moneysaving info with Ingineer. I also was the first one to describe how to replace the eMMC chip on the CID, and shared that info with Ingineer, since he had $20k+ of bad CIDs he couldn't fix.
But we had our final argument soon after on the phone, wherein I told him the truth of what I thought, and so he not only cut off my service but also my car. Which is why I posted that thread describing the situation. After a couple days he turned my car back on and I asked him to get away and stay out of it, but he still puts little reminders on the screen that he is still watching me, even this past week. (verygreen spilled these beans to Ingineer recently that I know it's him) I now have the knowledge and means to root my car and close that VPN, but not the time.
Bear in mind that there are others who are afraid to speak up...
dannytrue, I've used American Family and now use Sta