Mom Asks Walmart For Oil Change, Gets Car Blown Up Instead (Exclusive)

An Arizona lady who went to Walmart for an oil change claims she ended up with a blown up automotive as an alternative.

Nikki Smith says she narrowly escaped together with her life when her Jeep went up in a ball of flames on the Walmart Auto Heart in Phoenix — and it was simply by the Grace of God she did not have her three-year-old daughter strapped in there on the time, both.

Smith instructed TooFab she introduced the automotive to the supercenter on Sunday for a routine oil change.  She says the one different situation the car had ever had was a washer reservoir leak — which she had beforehand gotten fastened at the exact same Walmart.

The one mother had owned the automotive for over a yr, driving to her two jobs Monday to Friday, with out situation… till the oil change.

“After I took my automotive to Walmart I began noticing that my automotive was driving humorous and appearing as if it didn’t wish to drive,” she mentioned. “Then I seen fluid leaking from my grill.”

She claims after lifting up the hood, she found the oil cap had not been changed, and had leaked everywhere in the engine. She says Walmart agreed to take the automotive again, give it one other oil change, and clear up the mess.

In accordance with Smith, they even instructed her the worker accountable had been fired, and that the subsequent oil change was on the home.

However after she left the premises, she says the automotive nonetheless did not really feel proper.

“I had quite a few service lights on on my automotive that I might by no means had earlier than, my automotive had additionally started smoking, and was not accelerating over 20mph,” she claims.

She says she referred to as Walmart once more and this time they instructed her to go to an Auto Zone for a full diagnostic, and to convey the automotive again. She claims she was instructed they might repair the lot, pay for the repairs, and put her in a rental. She says by the point she made it again nonetheless, the Walmart Auto Heart was closed, and she or he was compelled to take the half-crippled automotive dwelling and are available again very first thing within the morning, which she says she did… and it was the final time she noticed her automotive in a single piece.

Smith claims two minutes after parking and strolling into the supervisor’s workplace, a employee ran in after her to tell them there was smoke billowing from the automotive. She says by the point they received outdoors, the automotive was in flames, earlier than finally exploding.

Fortunately her daughter, who usually travels all over the place together with her, had been left together with her grandmother on the time.

In floods of tears, Nikki posted footage on Instagram as she walked across the gutted wreck, utterly eviscerated, within the Walmart carpark. She thinks had anybody been within the automotive on the time, they very probably wouldn’t have survived.

However Nikki’s nightmare was simply getting began. She mentioned the supervisor was utterly unsympathetic and instructed her there was nothing he may do.

She mentioned she even needed to stroll dwelling from the shop, and was by no means as a lot as supplied a taxi.

“By no means one time did he apologize to me for this heartbreaking situation and even provide any assist,” she mentioned. “My household and I may have misplaced our lives and he thinks I am making an attempt to realize one thing aside from what I got here to Walmart with — which is a automotive.”

“I work very exhausting for every part I’ve. I work two jobs to supply for my daughter and now I do not also have a car to go to both of my jobs. I got here to Walmart with a superbly high-quality automotive and I needed to WALK dwelling with nothing.”

Nikki says all she desires is the automotive she had, changed — identical mannequin and yr, nothing extra — so she will get to work.

“I am not in search of any more money I simply want a automotive,” she mentioned. “I simply do not should be and not using a automotive as a result of lack of professionalism at Walmart.”

“That was my dream automotive,” she added, as she broke down into tears. “I labored so exhausting to make the funds on it…”

She mentioned that as quickly as she instructed Walmart she was hiring a lawyer, they went silent.

“In order of now I will need to pay for my very own rental automotive which I am going to need to take from my hire cash simply to get to work,” she mentioned. “I am not in search of cash out of anybody, I simply need Walmart to do the appropriate factor.”

TooFab reached out to Walmart, which might solely share the next assertion:

“We’re conscious of the state of affairs, and we are going to proceed working with the shopper till the matter concludes.”

Within the meantime, Nikki has arrange a GoFundMe to assist pay for a rental automotive so she will make it to work on time.