What started out as a great weekend away with the hubby quickly went south! Friday we got into Calgary and went to ikea! Got everything we wanted and then some then we headed to a mall to do some shopping before my friend that we were staying with got off work. We finished shopping and left and hubby was driving and I said 'geeze your truck is loud'. Hubby goes oh it's just cold (it's a diesel). So after drivin an hour through this city we finally get where we're goin and hubby's truck is still obnoxiously loud. He opens the door and shuts it off and gets a puzzled look on his face 'something doesn't sound right' ' he says. So he leaves the door open and starts the truck again. Looks underneath and a two foot section of his exhaust system is missing. Just gone!
its some diesel specific filter that has platinum and palladium in it. Guys are stealing them and selling them! 6 bolts is all that's holding this bloody filter on. So we go down to a police station and file a report.
Saturday morning we call our dealership at home to see if we can drive the truck home.. We're 6 hours away... They say probably no, that won't work, they couldn't get a hold of the service manager, but if they do they'll have him call. Okay fine, we need to figure out how we're gettin home. Hubby also calls a dealership in the city we're in, do they have the part we need? Have they heard of this happening? Oh yeah! That one dealership in a city of a million people is getting 20-30 calls a week about this happening. There's $hit all he can do for us.
Plan b! FIL has a truck... And a trailer! Do him and MIL Wanna take a drive? Luckily they do! They got there last night with FIL's one ton truck and a trailer and we loaded up this morning and headed home.
Later yesterday afternoon our local service manager called back, oh yeah this is a big problem! In our little town of 15000, they've had 8 of these disappear right off the dealership lot! He's heard of guys in other cities getting totally cleaned out overnight!
so ridiculous! Thank goodness for my amazing inlaws!

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Kaite... it pretty much is for things like Ikea. I live basically smack in the middle of Saskatchewan on the #1. 2 hours to the east is Regina (where i'm from), shopping is decent, but they don't have an Ikea, or any good outlet shopping, and 2 hours to the west is Medicine Hat, and the shopping there isn't great. So from Medicine Hat you drive the extra 3 hours (I guess I was only 5 hours from home not 6) and you get some really good shopping.