Sell your car in Colorado Springs: running or not, even on PCS orders
Whether orders are moving you out of Fort Carson, Peterson Space Force Base or the Air Force Academy, or you're simply done with the car, you get a firm cash offer online and free pickup at your home.
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Turning a car in at the Denver VPC
- Ask what your orders cover. On Fort Carson that's the Outbound Personal Property Processing Office, (719) 554-9291, in the same Mountain Post Soldier Center as the county office. At Peterson or the Academy, ask your base's transportation office.
- Gather the papers. The Defense Transportation Regulation asks for at least one proof of ownership, such as the title in your name, plus current registration. A financed or leased car headed to a foreign country also needs the lender's written approval on its letterhead, with the VIN.
- Book the turn-in. The VPC is at 14777 E. 35th Place in Aurora. It wants your shipping documents by email 48 to 72 hours before the appointment, and it holds a virtual briefing for turn-in appointments every Wednesday.
Where we pick up around Colorado Springs
The DoD's profile of Fort Carson says 82% of its soldiers and family members live off post, in towns such as Fountain, Security, Widefield and Monument. We pick up at your home anywhere from Monument (80132) and the Academy area (80840) down through Security-Widefield to Fountain (80817), across the city itself, and out to Manitou Springs, Cimarron Hills, Falcon, Black Forest and up the pass to Woodland Park.
A loan on the car is paid off out of the sale proceeds, straight to your lender, and anything left over comes to you. With the lender's exact payoff figure in hand, the sale can close the same week.
Ship it, store it, or sell it
When your orders authorize it, the Defense Department ships one vehicle per move at government expense, and the car has to be turned in at a vehicle processing center. The Defense Transportation Regulation's March 2025 list has one in Colorado: the Denver VPC in Aurora. PCSmyPOV, the site the regulation sends you to, tracks cars in storage as well as in shipment. A second car isn't covered, so it gets driven to the next station, stored on your own arrangement, or sold.
Selling here means a firm cash offer online and pickup at your place in Fountain, Security-Widefield or another off-post address in our pickup area. You hand over the signed title and keys when the driver arrives, and the whole thing fits inside an out-processing week. If you're still weighing it against shipping, our guide to selling your car before a PCS move walks through the trade-offs.
Cash for your car in Colorado Springs
Inside city limits, the city's list of common code violations says a vehicle stored outside on private property has to be operable and free of damage that would make it illegal to drive, and every vehicle has to be parked on concrete, asphalt or gravel. So a car that won't start can't just sit in the driveway. If you're after cash for junk cars in Colorado Springs, our junk car page explains how selling one works.
Is the car off the road because of a blown head gasket or a seized engine, a transmission that slips or won't go into reverse, or accident damage that makes it illegal to drive? The guide to that problem weighs the cost of a repair against selling the car as it is.
When the offices are open
- •Fort Carson's Visitor Control Center near Gate 1 is open 5 a.m. to 1 p.m. every day, holidays included (Fort Carson)
- •El Paso County's motor vehicle offices, the one on post included, are open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on weekdays; Union Town Center is the only one open Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. (El Paso County Clerk and Recorder)
- •Aurora's vehicle processing center takes cars Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., with the last car at 3 p.m. (PCSmyPOV)
Asked by Colorado Springs sellers
Is there a county motor vehicle office on Fort Carson?
Yes. The El Paso County Clerk and Recorder runs a county motor vehicle office in the Mountain Post Soldier Center, Bldg. 1525 at 6351 Wetzel Ave.; the county's listing for it links to the post's visitor-access rules. The post's page asks you to bring ID, PCS orders to your current unit and a current LES, plus a power of attorney if you're handling a title or registration for someone else, spouse included. Off post, the offices are the Citizens Service Center on Garden of the Gods Road, the Powers branch and the Union Town Center branch; Centennial Hall downtown has only a renewal kiosk.
Can the pickup happen on Fort Carson?
Anyone who wants unescorted access to Fort Carson without a DoD ID or installation pass goes through a background check first, either by applying online at pass.aie.army.mil or at the Visitor Control Center near Gate 1; at Peterson Space Force Base, passes come from the Visitor's Center just outside the Main Gate. Because gate access varies by installation and day, it's simplest to meet at an off-post address: your rental's driveway or a shopping-center lot both work.
Can I store or sell my car on Fort Carson instead?
Maybe. Fort Carson's MWR site has a Vehicle Storage & Sales page for the post's Auto Skills Center, 7001 Wetzel Ave. (Bldg. 2427), but it says only that some locations offer storage or resale lots. Vehicles must be registered and insured, and storage or sales fees may apply, so call (719) 526-2147 to ask what Carson has. The center is closed Sunday through Tuesday.
My car doesn't run and I live in unincorporated El Paso County. Which rules apply?
El Paso County's code enforcement officers cover the unincorporated areas, and the county lists inoperable vehicles among its common violations. Enforcement is complaint driven, though, and an officer has to be able to see that a vehicle is inoperable; the county says expired tags, or a car that hasn't moved in a long time, aren't a violation by themselves.
El Paso County requires emissions tests for diesel vehicles; whether your sale needs a test is answered on our Colorado page.