Sell your car in Jacksonville: running, broken down or on Navy orders
Describe your car and the offer comes back the same day you ask, whether you're a civilian or a sailor at NAS Jax or Mayport. Pickup is free across Duval County, and if orders are moving you, it's set around your out-processing.
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Before the car changes hands in Jacksonville
- Selling from home? The city caps it at two. In a residential district, the city's zoning code allows no more than two motor vehicles or boats to be sold from the premises in a 12-month period, and the city's Municipal Code Compliance Division enforces it.
- Meet where JSO meets. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office invites buyers and sellers to use its district substations, in the lobby or the parking lot, weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. District 2 is at 9119 Merrill Road and District 4 at 3726 Blanding Blvd.; District 1 closed on September 11, 2026, while it moves. JSO's list has the rest.
- Take the car off your SunPass account. FDOT's page for the First Coast Expressway (SR 23), checked in September 2026, says it has no toll plazas: gantries read a SunPass or scan the plate for a toll-by-plate invoice. A SunPass Mini is stuck to the windshield and stops working once removed, so update the vehicle in your SunPass account when the car leaves.
Where we pick up around Jacksonville
Pickup comes to a driveway at the Beaches, from Atlantic Beach to Jacksonville Beach, a street off San Jose Boulevard in Mandarin (32257), a home just outside the NAS Jax or Mayport gates, or anywhere else in Duval. Past the county line it goes as far as Yulee to the north and St. Augustine to the south, with Orange Park, Fleming Island, Middleburg and Ponte Vedra Beach covered too.
Kernan and Hogan are closed. Title and registration work for the Florida DMV (FLHSMV) is done at Duval County Tax Collector branches, and the St. Johns Square branch at 11160 Beach Blvd. opened on August 10, 2026, in their place. Branches are open weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; book ahead, or join a branch's virtual line and wait for a text telling you to head in.
Where a PCS car goes from Jacksonville
If your orders cover shipping the car, it's turned in at Orlando, not here. PCSmyPOV, the site Military OneSource sends you to for booking, lists one vehicle processing center in Florida, at 11262 Boggy Creek Road in Orlando, and it works by appointment only.
Selling on base is an option at NAS Jax, where the Autorama Resale Lot on Birmingham Avenue takes cars, campers and boats registered through the base's Auto Skills Center. Or sell it to us: take the offer, set the pickup, and the paperwork closes clean. Before you book an Orlando turn-in, compare shipping with selling before a PCS move.
Cash for your car in Jacksonville
Want to sell a junk car in Jacksonville? A car that stopped running while you were deployed, or one too far gone to fix, gets a cash offer as it sits, and pickup comes to where it's parked.
Letting it sit can turn into a code case here. The city's Municipal Code Compliance Division lists junk or abandoned vehicles with expired or missing plates among its most common violations. The city counts a car with no plate, or an invalid one, as abandoned unless it's kept inside a completely enclosed building or on a sales, storage or wrecking yard. The property owner or the person living there can be cited, and the car can be towed from private property, a fee-paying citation issued or the case filed with the Special Magistrate. If a dead car in your yard has already lost its plate, selling it as a junk car is one way to clear it first.
Whether it quit while you were deployed or right here at home, the guides to a blown head gasket or a seized engine and a transmission stuck in limp mode or with no reverse set the repair bill against selling the car unfixed.
Holding a car on base while you're gone
- •Mayport's MWR Vehicle Storage lot at 392 Massey Avenue stores a deployed sailor's primary vehicle free; otherwise storage is $75 a month for active duty, retirees and DoW. It's closed on Wednesdays except by appointment, and on weekends and holidays (Navy MWR Mayport)
- •NAS Jax's Deployed Storage lot is secured and holds a car from overnight up to a six-month deployment, or through a hospital stay of more than 30 days. You sign up at the Auto Skills Center, Building 622 on Birmingham Avenue, which is closed Mondays (Navy MWR Jacksonville)
- •For longer stays, NAS Jax also has a gated Long-Term Storage Lot with 24-hour access, rented by the month or by the year (Navy MWR Jacksonville)
Asked by Jacksonville sellers
My title is lost, or it's electronic. Where do I get a paper one in Jacksonville?
At any Duval County Tax Collector branch. Every location offers Fast Title for an added fee: bring your documents and the Authorization for Fast Title Release form, and a walk-in customer gets the title right away, or it can be mailed. The Tax Collector's Tag and Title page also links to printing an electronic title.
I'm leaving Florida. How do I turn in my plate in Duval County?
Take it to any Tax Collector branch, or mail the plate with a $6.25 payment to Duval County Tax Collector, Attn: Title Services, 231 E. Forsyth Street, Room 100, Jacksonville, FL 32202.
I'm stationed at Mayport. Who handles shipping my car?
The personal property office at NAS Jacksonville. The official MilitaryINSTALLATIONS listing for Naval Station Mayport says personal property is no longer at Mayport; the office is in Building 110 on Yorktown Avenue at NAS Jax (904-546-6105). Ask it what your orders cover before you book a turn-in date.
Which Mayport gate works for a pickup?
Pickup happens off base, since the truck doesn't drive on: at your off-base home, or at a spot just outside a gate. At Mayport, the Main Gate on Mayport Road is the one open around the clock. Gate 5, off A1A near Mayport Village, is open to inbound traffic from 5:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and closed on weekends and holidays.
Whichever Duval branch you use, the forms it asks for are Florida's, and our Florida page goes through them.