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Get a real offer for your vehicle, rusted, junk or running. Free towing across Wisconsin, you pick the pickup time, and you are paid by check at pickup. Below: how to fill in a Wisconsin title, the Seller Notify report, your plates, and what to do if the title is lost.
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WisconsinThese come up again and again in seller complaints about car buyers. Here is what usually happens, and what you can expect from us instead.
ElsewhereThe quote was one number on the phone. The driver hooks up the car, finds "extra rust" underneath, and offers less.
With usYour offer is based on what you tell us, rust included. If the vehicle matches your description, the offer stands and the driver does not renegotiate. If something does not match, you can decline and we leave it where it is, at no charge.
ElsewhereAn ad promises a headline price or a range, then the real quote is a fraction of it.
With usNo advertised price. You get an offer for your actual vehicle and see it before you agree to anything.
ElsewhereA towing or "long-distance" fee shows up at pickup and gets taken out of the money.
With usTowing is free and nothing is deducted. The offer you accept is the amount on your check.
ElsewhereThe car will not start in January, it is buried in a snowbank, and nobody wants to come out for it.
With usTowing is free whether it runs or not, and you choose the pickup time. Tell us where the vehicle sits and whether a driveway or lot needs clearing.
ElsewhereSellers with a lost title are turned away without being told Wisconsin has a way through.
With usWe explain your route: a $20 replacement on MV2119, the MV2459 junk bill of sale when a junk car goes to a licensed salvage dealer, or a bonded title if the car was never titled to you.
ElsewhereThe car is gone, but tickets or trouble come back to the seller because the DMV was never told.
With usWe tell you what ends it: take your plates off and report the sale through Wisconsin Seller Notify within 30 days. The steps are below.
As long as the vehicle is the way you described it. No haggling in your driveway, and no fees taken out.
Five steps from offer to done. Wisconsin asks more of the seller than most states: the price and buyer details go on the title, and the sale must be reported within 30 days.
Answer a few questions about the vehicle: year, make, model, condition, rust, and whether you have the title. You see the number before you commit.
Find the Wisconsin title and check it for a lien. If a loan was ever recorded, get the lender's lien release. If the title is lost, order a $20 replacement on MV2119, or ask us about the junk-sale route.
Sign and date it in the seller's section, and write in the selling price and the buyer's name and address. For model year 2011 and newer, add the odometer reading. If the owners are joined by "and", every owner signs.
Pick the pickup day and time in the offer form. The driver checks the vehicle against your description, you hand over the title, and you are paid by check when it is loaded.
Take your plates off, report the sale through Wisconsin Seller Notify within 30 days, and then cancel your insurance.
What you will see: how CashSellCar buys cars in Wisconsin, from an online offer to free towing at a time you pick and payment by check at pickup, plus the nine real Wisconsin vehicles we bought and what we paid. One minute, with an original Wisconsin song.
In Wisconsin the seller fills in more of the title than in most states, and reports the sale to the DMV. The buyer then titles the vehicle on form MV1.
Sign and date in the seller's section, and fill in the selling price and the buyer's name and address. Disclose any taxi, police, salvage or flood history.
Model year 2011 and newer needs the odometer reading on the title. Model year 2010 and older is exempt.
Report the sale online at wisconsindmv.gov/sellernotify with the VIN, buyer, date and price. Required for private sales, including junk sales by bill of sale.
The Replacement Title Application, for the owner on record. Junking with a licensed salvage dealer? You may not need it (see below).
Wisconsin has no age exemption, so every vehicle needs its title or a recognised substitute. There is a route for most situations:
Tell us your situation and we will tell you which applies.
Plates stay with the seller. Transfer them to another vehicle titled to you, your spouse or your domestic partner. If they stay on the car, file MV2514 to cancel them.
Use Wisconsin Seller Notify online. Keep a copy of the confirmation and of the signed title.
Once the vehicle is gone and the sale is reported, cancel your coverage.
Sources: WisDOT, Sell your vehicle; WisDOT, Seller notification; WisDOT forms MV1, MV2119, MV2459, MV2082; WisDOT, transfers to heirs; WisDOT, emissions testing.
Offers depend on the vehicle itself. These are the things that move the number, so you can check them before you ask.
Pulling the battery, tires or converter to sell separately usually costs you more on the offer than the parts bring in.
If the vehicle runs well and has no damage, a private sale may get you more. We are the better fit when it does not run, is rusted through, or you want it gone without listings and strangers.
Tell us if the car is snowed in or the drive needs clearing. A clear path makes pickup quicker for everyone.
Check the glove box, trunk and under the seats, and take out your garage opener and any papers before the tow.
Wherever your vehicle is in Wisconsin, from a Milwaukee driveway to a farm lane in Kewaunee County or a cabin road up north, the towing is free and you choose the pickup time.
Illustrative map. We pick up across Wisconsin, not only in the cities shown.
From Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine and Kenosha to Madison, Green Bay, the Fox Valley and up to Superior, the towing is free and you choose the pickup time. Some of the places we pick up:
Usually, yes, but a lost title does not have to stop you. If the title is in your name, you can order a replacement on form MV2119 for $20. WisDOT also says you do not need a replacement title to junk a car: when a junk vehicle is sold to a licensed salvage dealer, the owner can sign an MV2459 Junked Vehicle Bill of Sale instead, confirming there are no liens and that the title was lost or destroyed. There is no rule that older cars need no title. Tell us your situation and we will tell you which applies.
Licensed salvage dealers, dealers, and online car buyers like CashSellCar, which buys junk, damaged and running cars, trucks and SUVs across Wisconsin and tows them free. Whoever you sell to, Wisconsin requires you to report the sale to the DMV through Seller Notify within 30 days.
Sign and date the title in the selling owner's section. If the owners' names are joined by "and", every owner signs; if they are joined by "or", any one owner can sign. Fill in the selling price and the buyer's name and address, and write in the odometer reading if the vehicle is model year 2011 or newer. You must also disclose if the vehicle was ever a taxi, police vehicle, salvage or flood vehicle.
Yes. Wisconsin requires an individual who sells a vehicle to another individual, including a junk vehicle sold by bill of sale, to notify the DMV within 30 days of the sale. You do it online at wisconsindmv.gov/sellernotify with the VIN, the buyer's name and address, the sale date and the price. Keep a copy for your records.
Take them off. In Wisconsin the plates stay with the seller for cars and light trucks. You can transfer them to another vehicle titled to you, your spouse or your domestic partner. If the plates are left on the vehicle, complete form MV2514 to cancel them.
$20, on form MV2119, the Replacement Title Application. The fee can be waived for qualifying family members of a deceased owner. If you are only junking the car with a licensed salvage dealer, you may not need a replacement title at all (see the MV2459 answer above).
It depends on why there is no title. If you are the owner on record, order a $20 replacement on MV2119. If the vehicle is being junked with a licensed salvage dealer, MV2459 can take the place of a lost or destroyed title. If you bought the car and never got a title, the route is a bonded title on form MV2082, with a surety bond of 1.5 times the vehicle's value; wait for the DMV's written request before buying the bond. Wisconsin has no age exemption.
Not when you hand over a properly signed title. Writing one is still smart: include both names and addresses, the date, the price, the year, make and VIN, and both signatures. WisDOT's MV2928 includes an optional bill of sale. For a no-title junk sale to a licensed salvage dealer, the MV2459 Junked Vehicle Bill of Sale is the document.
Yes, but the buyer needs a lien release from your lender along with the title. Pay off the loan and get the release before pickup, and tell us about the loan when you ask for an offer.
Usually. When the deceased owner's solely owned estate is $50,000 or less, a surviving spouse, domestic partner or heir can use form MV2300 to transfer the vehicle. Above that, court-issued personal representative papers are needed, and the representative signs the title as the seller.
Emissions testing applies to vehicles kept in seven southeastern counties: Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Sheboygan, Washington and Waukesha. It is tied to registration, which is the buyer's step. We buy cars that failed emissions or have warning lights on.
WisDOT says the seller writes "Junk" across the title before handing it over, and once a vehicle is junked it can never be titled or licensed again, even if it is repaired. If the car still runs well, get an offer before you decide to junk it.
No. The selling price is required on a Wisconsin title, and WisDOT notes that the Department of Revenue investigates suspiciously low sale prices. Write the real price.
You are paid by check at pickup, when the vehicle is loaded. Towing is free across Wisconsin and nothing is deducted for it, whether the vehicle runs or not.
No. We buy all types of cars, trucks and SUVs in Wisconsin: rusted, wrecked, non-running, winter-damaged and vehicles that still drive. The vehicles on this page range from a $200 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt to a $2,500 2012 Buick Regal GS.
Last updated September 30, 2026. Paperwork steps checked against WisDOT guidance and forms. Questions? Call (844) 512-0697.