P-plate Adelaide teen who saved up for years to buy a second-hand Mazda is almost incinerated after it burst into flames 15 minutes later

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A teenage P-plate driver has escaped with her life after the car she had just bought burst into flames mere minutes after she drove it out of the dealership. 

Footage shows the second-hand Mazda bought by Hajar Yassini, 19, engulfed in flames on the side of Salisbury Highway in Adelaide on Tuesday.

She had 'saved for years' to afford the $5,000 car, which she bought from Commuter Cars Auto Repairs Wingfield, which is now being investigated. 

The teenager said she smelled smoke before flames erupted out of the engine which 'kept getting bigger and bigger'.

Hajar Yassini, 19, bought a second-hand Mazda from Commuter Cars Auto Repairs Wingfield in Adelaide on Tuesday and 15 minutes later it had erupted in flames

Footage shows the wreckage of the car being extinguished on the side of Salisbury Highway

About 15 minutes after leaving the dealership, Ms Yassini pulled the car onto the side of the road and tried to extinguish the flames before fleeing to a safe distance. 

'It was just so scary because it was genuinely a life-threatening situation,' she told 7News.

She claims that Commuter Cars Auto Repairs hasn't been replying to her complaints about the now-wrecked car, and now she is worried she won't get a refund.

'He was telling us the car is good, the engine is fine, everything is good,' she said.

Since the incident, 7News reported that the man who sold Ms Yassini the car was 'nowhere to be seen' when they visited the dealership.

When contacted, the man claimed that he had sold the car in a private capacity and not through the business. 

The business' sign has been removed from the storefront and the gates remain locked.

The Consumer and Business Affairs Commissioner has launched an investigation into the sale.

Police have said that the fire was caused by a mechanical fault.

Daily Mail Australia tried contacting Commuter Cars Auto Repairs Wingfield but the phone number has since been disconnected. 

Ms Yassini is now worried that she won't get her money back that she had been 'saving for years' 

The person who sold the car to Ms Yassini told 7News that he sold the car in a private capacity and not through the business where she picked it up (pictured), which is now under investigation over the incident