Sell your car in Fayetteville: running or not, even with expired tags
Get an instant offer online, and the car is picked up free wherever it's parked in Fayetteville or the towns around it. Once it's sold, one local step is yours: taking it off your Washington County assessment.
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Your side of the sale
- Ask for the offer online or with the form below. It's priced on the car itself, whatever the time of year.
- Accept it and schedule pickup anywhere on the I-49 corridor, at the address where the car is parked.
- Have the title ready to sign. Once it is, the sale itself takes a day: you're paid at handoff, and the buyer handles the registration.
Where we pick up around Fayetteville
Pickup is free anywhere in Washington and Benton counties, and we come to you. In Fayetteville that means the 72701, 72703 and 72704 ZIP codes. Beyond the city it covers Springdale and the rest of the I-49 corridor up to Bentonville and Bella Vista, plus Farmington, Prairie Grove and Siloam Springs to the west.
Cancel your U of A parking permit when the car sells. Transit and Parking's rules say the tag comes off before the sale, the sold car comes off your parking account, and the permit can't pass to the buyer. Only a cancelled permit gets a prorated refund, less a $5.00 processing fee. Refunds under $25 aren't issued, and annual student and staff permits aren't refunded for the summer.
Taking a sold car off your county assessment
Washington County assesses your cars as personal property, so once one is sold it should come off your list. The county assessor lets residents who have assessed before delete property they no longer own online, or by phone at (479) 444-1520 during regular business hours.
To do it in person, the assessor's office is in the Washington County Courthouse, 280 N. College Ave., Suite 250, open 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The county also takes assessments at the State Revenue Offices in Fayetteville, Springdale and Lincoln, which are open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Cash for your car in Fayetteville
Inside city limits, a car that has stopped running has to be kept in a building. Section 164.14 of the city code says disabled vehicles must be stored inside buildings and bans parking or storing wrecked or abandoned vehicles in residential districts. The city's street rules also bar repairing a vehicle on a city street except in an emergency.
Washington County keeps assessing the car, too. Its assessor FAQ says a vehicle that doesn't run, or isn't tagged, stays assessable until you sell it, give it away or salvage it. If you want cash for cars in Fayetteville, AR and yours has quit for good, it can be priced through the same form as a running car, and the free pickup comes to the garage, driveway or lot where it is parked. When it's worth only its parts, go straight to sell a junk car.
A car that has quit has to wait in a building while it's fixed here, so check the numbers first: selling a car with a blown engine or head gasket and selling a car with a slipping transmission price the repair against selling it as it is. After a wreck, selling an accident-damaged car covers frame damage and what you have to tell a buyer.
When a parked car gets towed here
- •On a city street, police can tow a vehicle that has been parked there continuously for more than 72 hours, and take it to a storage lot in Fayetteville or within 3 miles of the city limits. (Fayetteville code 72.02)
- •From private property, a tow that police did not order can cost the owner no more than $100, plus up to $10 a day for storage starting 12 hours after the car reaches the lot. No other fee is allowed. (Fayetteville code 72.72)
- •The storage lot must be in Fayetteville or within 8 miles of where the car was towed, with no mileage charge, and the company must take credit and debit cards. (Fayetteville code 72.72)
Asked by Fayetteville sellers
Which revenue office handles titles and tags in Fayetteville?
The Fayetteville State Revenue Office, at 3086 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Suite 2 (479-442-7691), open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays. It serves Washington County. State Revenue Offices are what people mean by the Arkansas DMV, and the title procedures they use come from DFA's Office of Motor Vehicle. You can apply for a replacement title there. Springdale's office, at 3159 Springdale Ave., keeps the same hours.
Do Fayetteville police have a place to meet someone from an online listing?
Yes. The Fayetteville Police Department's Safe Exchange Zone is its lobby or the surrounding parking lot at 1800 N. Stephen Carr Memorial Blvd. The lobby is open 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, and the parking lot has video surveillance around the clock.
A Fayetteville code officer left a door hanger about my car. What happens next?
The hanger describes the violation and how to reach the officer. Next, a Notice of Violation goes by certified mail to the property owner on record with Washington County, listing possible penalties and what has to be fixed. If it isn't corrected in the time given, the city hires contractors to correct it and bills the property owner of record. Code Compliance answers questions about the deadline at 479-575-8237, weekdays 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Where can I keep a car with expired tags in Fayetteville until it sells?
In a garage or other building that fully encloses it. City code 164.14 requires current plates on any vehicle that has to be licensed unless it is completely enclosed in a building, and the street rules bar parking one on a city street without a valid, current plate.
Our Arkansas selling guide covers the title signatures and the bill of sale.