Although the Cadillac Escalade enjoys a strong reputation as one of the finest in full-size luxury SUVs, the used models from past generations have a slightly different reputation. Once an aging and depreciated Escalade gets into the hands of its third, fourth, or fifth owner, it finds itself in the Home Depot parking lot a little more often, sometimes with fewer wheels than it had when it left the factory.
In the amusing video below, someone spotted a third-generation Cadillac Escalade in the ubiquitous home improvement store’s parking lot in Miami. However, something was a little off about this one. The front passenger-side wheel is completely missing, and it’s being held up by one of those carts you use to push around bulky items at Home Depot. Take a look.
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The onlookers’ laughter is so boisterous that it’s a little hard to concentrate on exactly what we’re looking at here. Instagram user @fmolina18, who posted the reel, used the hashtag #OnlyinMiami since this isn’t something you see every day, even in a quirky city like Miami.
Here at GM Authority, we cannot recommend using a Home Depot cart, or any shopping cart at all, as a replacement for a wheel or a jack. We’d love to know what the owner of this Escalade’s plans are for replacing their wheel, and we’re curious how long it’s been sitting in this state. Hopefully, there’s a real auto shop nearby. As much as we’ve looked, we’ve never found replacement wheels for a GMT900 Cadillac Escalade at Home Depot.
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Simple, tire went flat and they did not want the jack stolen. Not exactly hard to figure out.
Cadillac, Cadillac, Cadillac STYLE! With the exception of a Corvette, anything GM over 8 years ends up at Walmart with 6 kids in the back seat with an opiate using mother screaming at one of the three baby daddies on a Boost mobile cell phone to bring her diaper money and a little extra for some Steak Ums.
I like steak ums.
Only in the US could you find this slack safety standards enforcement.
Not really. With millions of PI tv and billboard lawyers scouring the land for plaintiffs and willing clients, that will FORCE voluntary compliance. It’s self interest rightly understood. A form of free market regulation. If one keeps getting pounced on by law suits, you either build a better car or take it off the market.
someone may have stole the wheel. Put cart under it, remove the schrader valve, spin off lugs with battery powered impact, and bamm! You just got yourself a wheel and tire free of charge.
Spoken like a junkyard junkee. Kudos!
That’s my guess, too. Thieves stole the wheel, put the cart under the vehicle to support it.
I had a similar experience at a shopping center – came out, found a wheel missing with a concrete block under the vehicle. Mall Security told me that was the third vehicle like mine with a wheel stolen there recently. (Where were they while the wheel was being taken?)
Definitely a stolen wheel. Hard to believe this article thought different.