Sell your car in Medford: running or not, fire-damaged or failed DEQ
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From parking tickets to a boot to a tow
- Unpaid fines can bring a boot. Once a driver or registered owner owes $150 in unpaid Medford parking fines, counted across any number of vehicles, officers can boot that person's car when it's parked on a street or a city-run lot. Ten days before, the city puts a notice on the car and mails one to the registered owner.
- A booted car can't be picked up. Only the city may move it until it's released, and release takes the whole balance plus a boot-removal fee, paid by cash, card, money order or cashier's check; the city takes no personal checks. It also comes off if the present owner shows the city they didn't own the car when the tickets were written.
- The next day, it can be towed. A car still booted at 5 p.m. the following day can be impounded (Medford Municipal Code 6.950 to 6.972).
Where we pick up around Medford
We buy cars in Medford (97501 and 97504) and next door in Central Point (97502), and collect them from your driveway. The range takes in Ashland and, in the next county over, Grants Pass, with Phoenix, Talent, Jacksonville, White City and Eagle Point in between.
Expired tags mean off the street. Medford's code says a vehicle with expired registration can't be placed on the public right-of-way (Medford code 6.345), so keep it on your own property until pickup. If it doesn't run either, remember that the rule above covers the driveway too.
Cash for your car in Medford
Under Medford's code, a vehicle that is or appears to be inoperative, wrecked or partly dismantled can't be stored on private or public property for more than five days unless it's completely enclosed in a legally permitted building. That covers your own driveway and yard, not just the street. Each extra day counts as a separate violation (Medford Municipal Code 5.505).
Cars that won't start, wrecks, cars being parted out, and cars with fire, smoke or heat damage or a failed DEQ test can all get a cash offer from us. For junk cars in Medford with no keys or no title, the junk car guide sets out what to do first. After any sale, the paperwork still matters here: if the city removes a dumped car and the landowner isn't liable, Medford bills the last registered owner unless that owner followed the state's transfer rules.
Fire, smoke and heat damage fall under selling a car with fire or accident damage, and if an insurer already called it a total loss, selling a totaled car explains the salvage title. For a car that won't start because the engine seized or the transmission gave out, see selling a car with a seized engine and selling a car with a failed transmission.
The Medford DEQ station on Biddle Road
DEQ's station for the Medford area is at 3030 Biddle Road, open 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, shut Saturdays and Sundays. A test costs $20, and you pay only if the car passes (Oregon DEQ). Medford's rules aren't Portland's: here, gas, hybrid and light diesel vehicles are tested when they're 20 years old or less, while Portland tests them back to the 1975 model year (DEQ).
DEQ says most Medford-area vehicles must be emissions-tested before they're registered, and the station won't test an excessively smoking vehicle or one that poses a safety hazard. If the repair quote tops what the car is worth to you, the engine-problems guide works through the fix-or-sell math.
Medford's street parking limits
- •A car parked on a Medford street has to move at least 25 feet every five days. After that it counts as stored, and each extra day is a separate offense (Medford code)
- •A motor home, truck or truck trailer may stay parked in one place on the street for no more than 24 hours in a row (Medford code)
Asked by Medford sellers
Which DMV office handles Medford, and what does it ask of you?
The Oregon DMV office in Medford is at 987 Medford Center Dr., off Stevens Street (541-776-6025). It asks that nothing be mailed to it: anything you send by mail goes to the Salem headquarters at 1905 Lana Ave NE instead (Oregon DMV).
What happens after someone reports a junk car in Medford?
The city's Code Enforcement division handles abandoned vehicles under Medford's health and safety rules (City of Medford). If the city finds a nuisance, its notice gives the owner 10 days to remove it or show that no nuisance exists. After that the city can remove it and put a lien on the property for the cost plus 25% or $15, whichever is greater (Medford code 5.520).
Medford police impounded my car. What does release take?
Medford Police release impounded cars around the clock (541-770-4783). You need proof of ownership, insurance that lists that specific vehicle, and the $200 police administrative fee. Towing and storage are paid separately to the tow company, which sells the car if they go unpaid. Think the tow was wrong? Mail or hand a written hearing request to Medford Municipal Court, 411 W. 8th St. #285, no later than five days after the tow notice, weekends and holidays excluded (Medford Police).
Where do I pay or appeal a Medford parking ticket?
Not at Municipal Court: the city says its clerks can't help with parking tickets. Pay within 30 calendar days of the ticket, by phone at 541-774-2082 or by mail to Medford Parking Enforcement, 301 Middleford Alley. An appeal goes in writing to the same address, with the payment, postmarked inside that same window (City of Medford).
Nothing about signing the title or telling Oregon DMV about the sale is special to Medford; our Oregon selling guide walks through it.