Sell your car in Brunswick: running or not, wrecked or inherited
Get a cash offer and free pickup in Brunswick and the towns around it, timed around the date you need the car gone. The paperwork after the sale stays in town: Brunswick registers cars for the Maine BMV (DMV) at its own Tax Office, so your next car can usually be registered without a separate trip to a state branch.
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Selling in Brunswick, start to finish
- Pick the date. Moving day, a new shift schedule, or just when you want the driveway back. Once you accept an offer, pickup usually gets scheduled within days, set around that date.
- Have the title in hand. If another state issued it, tell us which one when you reach out and we'll confirm the exact signing steps for that certificate before pickup. The paperwork at pickup takes minutes.
- Then Union Street, if there's a next car. Its registration and your excise credit go through the Tax Office; what to bring is in the questions above.
Where we pick up around Brunswick
We buy cars in Brunswick anywhere in 04011, from the streets off Maine Street to Brunswick Landing, the former naval air station. Free pickup also runs to Topsham (04086) and Bath (04530), along Route 1 from Freeport up through Woolwich and Wiscasset, and out to Harpswell, Bowdoinham and Richmond.
Car from an estate? Brunswick's Tax Office needs extra documents to register a car bought or acquired from an estate, and asks you to call 207-725-6657 ahead for the details. Make that call before you or a Brunswick buyer heads to Town Hall.
Where Brunswick registers cars
Brunswick is a full registration agent for the Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles. That means the Tax Office in Town Hall, 85 Union Street, handles most first-time registrations and renewals without a separate BMV transaction. It is where a Brunswick neighbor who buys your car privately registers it, and where your next car gets registered if you live in town. For anything the town office can't do, the Maine BMV has a branch office at 125B Main St. in Topsham.
Cash for your car in Brunswick
Junk cars in Brunswick come with a winter cost that has nothing to do with repairs. One that won't start and is still on a town road when a parking ban is called gets a $50 ticket for impeding snow removal and is towed at your expense: $140 for a snow-removal tow, plus storage of $50 a day outdoors or $75 indoors if it isn't collected by 11 a.m. the day after. Brunswick Police Dispatch, 207-725-5521, can tell you which towing company has it (town parking rules).
A car that is old, wrecked or no longer running can still get a cash offer here, with free pickup. If a repair would cost more than the car is worth, sell it as a junk car and get it off the street before the next ban.
To check whether a repair would cost more than the car is worth, selling a car with a blown engine and selling a car with a bad transmission list what those repairs usually cost, and selling a wrecked car covers when crash damage is worth fixing.
Brunswick office hours and snow-ban rules
- •Brunswick Town Hall, home of the Tax Office, is open Monday to Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and closed Fridays (documentation)
- •The Topsham BMV branch, 125B Main St., is open weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., phone 207-725-6520, and takes booked appointments (documentation)
- •Brunswick's winter services page says parking bans will be called with at least six hours' notice. During a ban there is no overnight parking on any town road or municipal lot except the Cabot Street lot and the Cedar Street Park & Ride; in the downtown Yellow Zone the limit runs only from 12:01 to 7 a.m. (documentation)
Asked by Brunswick sellers
What will Brunswick's Tax Office ask for when I register my next car?
For a car from a dealer or a private sale, the town lists: the bill of sale or dealer invoice, your current registration if the plates are moving over from the car you sold, a Maine title application and sales tax form, the previous owner's title and lien release for a private sale, a valid insurance card, proof you live in Brunswick such as a utility bill, and the odometer reading.
Can I register the replacement online instead of going to Town Hall?
Only renewals. The first time you register any vehicle in Brunswick, it has to be done in person at the Tax Office, even if a previous owner already registered that car in town. After that, renewals can be done in person, by mail, or online through Rapid Renewal.
Does Brunswick give back the excise tax on a car I sell?
It comes back as a credit toward your next vehicle. Under Maine's excise law, the excise you paid this registration year counts toward the excise on the next one, given wherever the excise is payable, which for a Brunswick resident is the Tax Office. In the last four months of the registration year the credit is capped at half of what you paid. If the credit is larger than the next car's tax, refunding the difference is each town's choice, and Brunswick's registration page doesn't say, so ask at the counter.
If I move to Topsham or Bath, will my next car still need an emissions test?
The county line decides it. Brunswick, Freeport and Harpswell are in Cumberland County, and Maine State Police say vehicles registered in Cumberland County also need an emissions test. Topsham, Bath, Bowdoinham, Woolwich and Richmond are in Sagadahoc County, which that rule doesn't cover.
Title signing, the bill of sale and your plates follow Maine rules, covered on our Maine selling guide.