Sell your car in Farmington: running, wrecked or a high-mileage truck
We buy cars in Farmington, from family SUVs to high-mileage diesels and work trucks with the flatbed still on. Describe yours by phone or on the form and you'll get a cash offer. If you take it, pickup is free, at the house or at the yard where the truck is kept.
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From a parked car to pickup
- Check for a city notice. An abandoned-vehicle notice or a for-sale warning sticker shows the date and time it was put on the car. That's when the city's clock started, so note it first.
- Describe it and get the offer. Year, model, miles, damage, what doesn't work and any equipment, by phone or on the form. If you still owe on it, the payoff is handled as part of the sale; our guide to selling a car with a loan explains how.
- Say where it sits. Give the address of the driveway, street or yard, so the right truck is sent for it.
Where we pick up around Farmington
Pickup covers Farmington’s 87401 and 87402 and the other towns in the Farmington metro planning area: Bloomfield, Aztec, Kirtland and the built-up parts of San Juan County around them. Flora Vista, La Plata, Waterflow and Shiprock are in range as well. If the truck lives at a yard instead of the house, that works: drivers meet you where the keys are.
Selling the truck but keeping the trailer? List the gooseneck hitch, toolboxes or auxiliary tank, since working equipment can change the offer. Then plan where the trailer goes: the city bars leaving any trailer unhitched on a street, except a travel trailer for up to 48 hours or one with a permit from the chief of police (City Code 25-4-10).
Cash for your car in Farmington
Junk cars in Farmington are on a short clock. A car that's dismantled, wrecked or doesn't run can't be left on a city street at all, and on private property it can stay only 48 hours in plain view. The exceptions are a garage or other enclosed building, or a fence, landscaping, tarp or car cover that hides it (City Code 12-2-57). A car with no current plate, or one up on blocks or jacks, is presumed not to run (12-2-56).
Code Compliance, a police division of three officers and a corporal who each cover one district of the city, enforces these rules. If fixing the car no longer makes sense, we make offers on old, damaged and non-running cars, and we pick them up from where they sit. Here is how selling a junk car works.
If your high-mileage truck has started knocking or overheating, selling a car with a knocking engine or blown head gasket weighs the repair against selling it as is, and selling a car with a bad transmission does the same for one that slips or won't go into reverse. After a crash, selling an accident-damaged car explains what a buyer checks and what you have to disclose.
Where a For Sale sign is allowed in Farmington
Parking a car on any city street mainly to show it for sale is banned, and so is washing, greasing or repairing it there, apart from emergency repairs (City Code 25-4-9). Off the street, a car with a sign belongs on property permitted for vehicle sales. The exceptions are property you own or lease, parked in a spot meant for parking; your employer's employee parking, in the car you drive to work; and a short stop while you shop, visit or do business somewhere. At home or at work, the car must also show your name, your phone number and whether you own the property or work there (25-7-1).
Anywhere else, a police, code compliance or animal control officer can put a warning sticker on the car. If it's still in the same spot 24 hours later, it can be towed and stored at your expense, each day on display counts as a separate violation, and a stickered car moved to another spot that breaks the rule can be towed with no second warning (25-7-2).
When Farmington can tow a parked car
- •7 days in the same spot on a mostly residential street, or 48 hours in a commercial or industrial area, and the city can treat the car as abandoned (City Code 25-6-3)
- •After a notice goes on it, the owner has 48 hours to move it; after that it can be towed, and the registered owner owes a $10 penalty plus towing and storage (City Code 25-6-3)
- •A towed car can carry a storage lien and be sold at auction after 30 days if no one arranges its release (City Code 25-6-5)
Asked by Farmington sellers
Do you buy oilfield work trucks in Farmington NM?
We do. Flatbeds, utility beds and gooseneck setups are included, and so are high-mileage diesels. A heavy one may not be allowed to wait at the house: in residential zones, the city bars commercial vehicles rated 11,501 pounds GVWR or more, alone or with a trailer, and all commercial trailers from parking on the street or the lot, except to load, unload or do work there (UDC 5.2.7), so a yard address is fine.
If I need the MVD before the sale, where do I go around Farmington?
The New Mexico MVD, which many people call the New Mexico DMV, runs a state field office at 3501 E. Main Street #N, Farmington 87402. The state's list of its own field offices shows none in Aztec or Bloomfield. Most offices require an appointment, and state field offices are open 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m., closed over lunch.
My car was wrecked in a crash in town. Where do I get the police report?
If Farmington police worked the crash, ask for the accident report at the Records counter, on your left inside the double glass doors of the police lobby at 900 Municipal Drive. Hours are weekdays 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.; phone (505) 599-1053. If the insurer has totaled the car, our guide to selling a totaled car covers that sale.
How do I get around Farmington after I sell my only car?
Red Apple Transit runs fixed bus routes and a Dial-A-Ride service in Farmington and the nearby San Juan County towns, with transfers to Navajo Transit. On snow days it follows the Farmington schools' delay schedule.
Signing the title and the other statewide steps work the same across New Mexico, so they are covered in our New Mexico selling guide.