Sell your car in Irving: stripped, wrecked or just past its sticker
An expired registration or inspection sticker alone doesn't make a car junk in Irving: the city's definition also needs it wrecked, dismantled or discarded and inoperable for more than 30 consecutive days. Request a cash offer online, and the free pickup comes to wherever the car is parked.
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Selling a car that's in the Irving Auto Pound
- Get the title out first. The Auto Pound's FAQ says personal identifying information such as passports, documents and titles can be retrieved from a car it holds (Irving Auto Pound FAQ, November 2023 copy).
- Bring proof of insurance. A vehicle released from the Auto Pound needs proof of insurance for that vehicle (pound FAQ).
- Watch the hold. Daily storage fees don't accrue while a car is on Hold, but they start once the investigator drops the hold (pound FAQ).
- Then ask for the offer. Tell us where the car will be when you want it collected.
Where we pick up around Irving
From Irving to Grand Prairie and Dallas, pickup anywhere in Dallas County costs you nothing, and the car doesn't have to start.
Your buyer may run a Title Check. Dallas County's titling page points buyers to Title Check, where an approved provider checks a VIN to find out whether the car was salvaged, rebuilt or damaged in a flood (Dallas County Tax Office). If yours has that history, put it in your description up front.
Cash for your car in Irving
Irving's code FAQ lists three conditions for a junk motor vehicle, and a car has to meet all of them: it lacks a valid registration or inspection; it is wrecked, dismantled or partially dismantled, or discarded; and it has stayed inoperable for more than 30 consecutive days. The same page also says an expired inspection or registration sticker by itself doesn't make a car a junk motor vehicle (City of Irving FAQ, June 2024 copy). Concerns go to Code Enforcement at (972) 721-4829 or through the city's online complaint form.
Our buying partner makes offers on cars that meet all three conditions and on cars that only fail the sticker. The junk car offer is for the dead, stripped and wrecked ones, and the free pickup takes the car off the property. If the registration ran out while it sat, selling with an expired registration covers who pays the lapsed fees.
Irving's rules on loose parts and extra cars
Pulling parts before you sell? Irving's FAQ counts car parts as outside storage, along with furniture, tools, building materials and equipment, and outside storage should be kept in an enclosed building or removed (City of Irving FAQ). Loose parts in the yard fall under that rule even when the car they came from doesn't.
The city's Report A Concern form also has separate categories for Vehicle Concern on Property and Too Many Vehicles (Irving Report A Concern, updated May 2025), so a driveway crowded with cars is one of the things it is set up to take.
Asked by Irving sellers
Which Dallas County branch can I use on a Wednesday or a Thursday morning?
Grand Prairie on a Wednesday morning, North Dallas on a Thursday morning. Grand Prairie is closed Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., and North Dallas is closed Wednesdays for the same hours (Dallas County Tax Office).
Can I move my TollTag from the car I sold to my next one?
No. NTTA assigns each TollTag to a specific vehicle and its license plate, so one tag can't serve two cars. Take the sold car off your account by deactivating its plate under Manage Vehicles (NTTA).
Can the car sit on the lawn in Irving until it's picked up?
No. Irving doesn't allow parking on the grass; the only exception is a vehicle that is actively being washed (City of Irving FAQ). Keep it on the driveway or in the garage until the truck arrives.
Texas title signing, the transfer notice and the plates don't change from one county to the next, so those steps live on our Texas selling page. If a Title Check turns up a brand, selling a salvage or rebuilt title car explains what the brand means.
Dallas County tax offices for an Irving sale
- •No branch inside Irving. Dallas County's office list runs Downtown, Garland, Grand Prairie, Mesquite, North Dallas, Oak Cliff and South Dallas. (Dallas County Tax Office)
- •Grand Prairie Branch, 106 W. Church Street, Suite 105: weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., but closed Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Dallas County Tax Office)
- •North Dallas Branch, 6820 LBJ Freeway, Suite 1300, on the southwest corner of Hillcrest Road and LBJ: the same weekday hours, except Wednesdays, when it's closed from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Dallas County Tax Office)
- •(214) 653-7811 is the county tax office number TxDMV lists, with the address 500 Elm Street, Suite 1200, in downtown Dallas. (TxDMV)
- •Online first. The county urges customers to process motor vehicle transactions online at its website. (Dallas County Tax Office)