Selling a junk or dead car in Post Falls

The plate trap

In Idaho, plates go with the seller, not the car. You keep them and the registration card after a sale. That matters here because the moment you pull the plates off a car that is staying behind, it becomes unlicensed under the Post Falls definition, and the 48-hour clock applies. So plan the plate swap for the day the car leaves, not the week before. A Post Falls plate can move to your next vehicle after it's registered, and the transfer costs $5.

Taking it apart needs a permit

The same section also bars any vehicle from being "in a state of major disassembly, disrepair, or in the process of being stripped or dismantled unless pursuant to a salvage permit." Section 8.36.060 sets out that permit. It allows "two (2) inoperative Vehicles on the property: one Vehicle being used as salvage and one Vehicle being repaired." Both must be parked under the city's parking chapter and the zoning rules for your district.

The permit is not a free pass. If the conditions slip, or the work shows no real progress, the city revokes it and gives a 48-hour notice. What is left after the notice gets hauled off, with "the cost thereof charged to the permittee." If your plan to part the car out has stalled, a whole-car sale takes that risk away.

Streets and parking lots

The public right-of-way is stricter. Section 8.36.040 makes it "unlawful to leave inoperative Vehicles on public right-of-way for a period longer than twenty-four (24) hours," and removal follows Title 49, chapter 18 of Idaho Code. Even a working car may not stay on the same block of a public street or alley "for more than forty-eight (48) hours" under Section 10.20.060. On a roadside, state law calls for a notice that the car will be towed after 48 hours.

Title and release in Kootenai County

Private-sale title paperwork goes to the Kootenai County assessor's motor vehicle office, the county office ITD names for it. Sign the title over to the buyer. For a Post Falls car under 16,000 lb and newer than model year 2010, the seller also fills in an odometer disclosure. In Post Falls, a car sold as not an operating unit has "for junk only" marked on the title's front.

After that, Post Falls sellers get the release of liability to ITD inside 5 days. It is $3.50, and it means later tickets, towing or storage are not yours. Lost the title? A duplicate takes the notarized ITD 3367; see selling with no title and after you sell. The Idaho page has the state rules in one place.

Getting an offer

Ring (877) 421-6008 or use the form. Send the brand, model year and miles, tell us if it cranks, and say who the title lists as owner. We load from a Post Falls driveway, a repair bay, or a lot in Coeur d'Alene, 7.1 miles off.