Sell your car in Bend: running, damaged, not running or in pieces
Cash for cars in Bend, Oregon, starts with a short description: the car, the miles, whether it runs. Our nationwide buying partner comes back with a real cash offer. Accept it and pickup comes to your driveway anywhere from Sisters to La Pine, with payment when the car is handed over.
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After someone reports a car on a Bend street
- The report goes to dispatch. Parking reports go to non-emergency dispatch at 541-693-6911.
- An officer checks the car. A Community Service Officer decides whether it is abandoned. If it is, the officer tags it for impound and may write a parking ticket.
- A second check, then a possible tow. The officer comes back three business days later. If the car hasn't moved, it may be towed, and once the tow is requested the tow company has 24 hours to remove it (Bend Police traffic and parking).
Where we pick up around Bend
Pickup comes to any address in Bend, in 97701, 97702 and 97703, and out along Highway 97. That includes Redmond, the largest city nearby at about 37,460 people in Portland State University's July 2025 estimate (KTVZ). Sisters, Tumalo, Terrebonne, Madras, Prineville, Sunriver and La Pine are covered as well, and the miles up and down Highway 97 don't add a charge.
Planning to haul it off yourself? The county landfill won't take it. Knott Landfill, the only landfill in Deschutes County, lists automobiles among the materials it does not accept (Deschutes County Solid Waste).
Cash for your car in Bend
Bend counts a car that doesn't run as a discarded vehicle, and its loose parts count too. Either one can sit where people can see it for only 72 hours. After that it has to be screened by a solid barrier 6 feet high. The city's own examples are a garage or a backyard with a solid 6-foot fence (City of Bend code enforcement).
We make cash offers on old cars, damaged cars and cars that won't start. Cash for junk cars in Bend works the same way; the junk car page explains how a car with no key gets onto the truck.
When a car won't run because the engine seized or keeps overheating, or because of a slipping transmission or a failed CVT, selling a car with engine problems and selling a car with a bad transmission explain selling it as it is. Crash damage is covered in selling an accident-damaged car.
Where to go if the title needs work
- •Bend: 63085 N Hwy 97, Bldg L, Suite 110, in the state offices off Mervin Samples Rd. Heading north on the Parkway, take exit 135B to Empire Blvd (Oregon DMV)
- •The Bend office handles title transactions and VIN inspections, in English and Spanish (Oregon DMV services chart)
- •Redmond: 3835 SW 21st Place, closed midday from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. (Oregon DMV)
- •La Pine: 51515 Huntington Rd, open Thursdays only, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., closed 12:30 to 1:30 (Oregon DMV)
Asked by Bend sellers
Is the Bend DMV office open on Thursdays?
Only by appointment, which you book through DMV2U. The office is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Friday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday (Oregon DMV).
How quickly does Bend look at a junk car complaint?
If the car is on private property, the complaint goes to the city's Code Enforcement division, which typically reviews complaints within two business days (City of Bend). What it checks is the 72-hour screening rule described above. A car on the street is a police matter instead; the steps below show how that goes.
Where do old tires, a dead battery and used oil go in Bend?
To Knott Landfill, 61050 SE 27th Street. Car and light-truck tires cost $4 each, or $6 on a rim, up to 12 per customer per day (Deschutes County). Lead-acid batteries are free there and at every Deschutes County transfer station, and so is up to 5 gallons of used motor oil from a household. Household antifreeze is free at the landfill's Hazardous Waste Facility, open Fridays and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., except federal holidays (Deschutes County).
My car is outside Bend city limits. Who handles complaints there?
Deschutes County's Code Enforcement program, based at the Deschutes Services Building, 1300 NW Wall St. in Bend. It works on private property only. A problem in the road right-of-way goes to the County Road Department at 541-388-6581 (Deschutes County).
Need the title and notice-of-sale steps? They are on our Oregon selling guide.