Sell your car in Dallas: running or not, hail-damaged or high-mileage
Get an instant cash offer for your car in Dallas and free pickup where it sits, hail-totaled cars and high-mileage commuters included. Below: Dallas fines for a junked car, the county tax office branches in the city, and your TollTag after the sale.
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Selling in Dallas, step by step
- 01Get the offer. Enter the year, make, model and miles, plus any hail damage or salvage brand. It takes about two minutes, any time of day.
- 02Pick the window. Pickup is often within a day or two of accepting; same-day or next-day often works in the inner metroplex, confirmed when you accept. A Richardson driveway or an office garage off the Tollway both work.
- 03Get paid at pickup. Payment lands before the car leaves the driveway.
Where we pick up around Dallas
We buy cars in Dallas and across the metroplex: Plano and Richardson up north, Garland and Mesquite to the east, Irving, Grand Prairie and Arlington out west. In the city, that means anywhere from a downtown garage (75202) to a North Dallas driveway (75240) or an Oak Cliff street.
If the insurance has lapsed, leave the car parked until pickup. Under the city's Uninsured Motorist Ordinance, enforced since January 1, 2009, police cite a driver stopped for a traffic violation without proof of insurance and tow the car at the owner's expense.
A hail-totaled car can't be driven to the sale
NOAA's Storm Events Database lists 107 hail events in Dallas County from 2022 through 2025, 51 of them in 2023.
Once an insurer totals a car, the Dallas County Tax Office is plain about it: a salvage or nonrepairable vehicle may not be driven on public roads, and its registration becomes invalid when the insurer reports it. We make offers on hail-totaled cars with a salvage title, and on ones where you kept the payout and the dents, and we pick them up where they sit. More in selling a totaled car.
Cash for your car in Dallas
A dead car can cost you in Dallas. In 2017 Code Compliance listed junk motor vehicles, meaning inoperative or partly dismantled cars with expired tags, among common violations. The Municipal Court's fine list puts junk motor vehicle charges at $181 to $246 with fees, and parking on an unapproved surface at $281 to $419.
Selling it ends that risk. We buy junk cars in Dallas, including ones that won't start or haven't moved in years: describe it as it is, get an instant cash offer, and if you accept, the tow away is free. See how junk car offers work.
If yours won't start or won't move because the engine or transmission gave out, selling a car with a blown engine and selling a car with a slipping transmission or no reverse each set the repair bill against selling it as is. For hail dents that didn't total the car, selling a car with hail damage explains why hail is usually a pricing question, not a safety one.
Asked by Dallas sellers
I owe the City of Dallas for old tickets. Can I still sell my car?
The fines stay with you, not the car. Dallas County's tax office can freeze your registration renewal over a past-due city or county fine, but a new owner is not penalized for the last owner's fines. Pay the city or court that issued the ticket.
Where do I get a replacement title near Dallas?
From the Texas DMV (TxDMV), not the county branches. Dallas County points you to TxDMV's South Dallas Regional Office in Duncanville or its Fort Worth office, or the Wichita Falls office by mail. Meanwhile, see selling without a title.
What happens to my TollTag when I sell?
Leave it on the glass; NTTA says removing a TollTag destroys it. Take the car off your account online or at 972-818-NTTA (6882), since tolls come out of your prepaid balance whenever the tag is used. In person, NTTA's Dallas center is at 39025 LBJ Service Road, inside the DPS office at I-20 and I-35E.
Where can I meet a buyer safely in Dallas?
In May 2018 Dallas police opened the city's first Safe Exchange Zone, a surveilled, well-lit spot at 1999 E. Camp Wisdom Road, the South Central Patrol station. With our offer, there is no one to meet: the car is picked up where it's parked.
My car was towed to the Dallas auto pound. What do I need?
The Dallas Police Auto Pound at 1955 Vilbig Road releases cars 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Bring your original driver license or ID, proof of insurance, and the title or a bill of sale. Questions: 214-670-5116.
Title signing, plates and the transfer notice work the same anywhere in Texas, so they are on our Texas guide.
Dallas County tax office branches in the city
- •Dallas spans four counties. Dallas, Collin, Denton and Rockwall, but most of the city's property is in Dallas County, whose county tax office handles titles and registration at these branches.
- •Downtown: 500 Elm Street, Suite 1200. Weekdays 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- •North Dallas, Oak Cliff and South Dallas. 6820 LBJ Freeway at Hillcrest Road, 702 E. Jefferson Boulevard and 8301 S. Polk Street, weekdays 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. One number for every branch: 214-653-7811 (branch list).