Selling a dead car in Cedar Falls

When it is yours, we buy whole non-running and junk cars. You sell the whole car as it sits, with free pickup anywhere in the US, Cedar Falls included.

Ten days, then a new violation every day

The clock starts with a written notice from a police officer or another city official. Under Section 15-38, the car's owner or the property owner must, "within ten days after service of a written notice," either remove the car or repair it. After that, Section 15-36 makes each day the car stays "a new violation of this article."

The rule reaches parts as well as whole cars. An engine on a stand or a pile of fenders behind the garage counts as a "vehicle part," and the same ten days apply, on public or private property.

Snow routes and the city's off-street lots

On streets signed "Emergency Snow Route," Section 23-386 bans parking once a snow emergency is declared, but not right away: the ban "shall not go into effect until two hours after the snow emergency has been declared." It lasts until the city says the emergency is over, and police can tow cars left on the route. Two hours is little help when the engine is dead.

Off-street municipal lots have a limit too, even for permit holders. Section 23-418 lets a monthly permit holder park up to 48 consecutive hours, and a car left longer without moving is "subject to citation for overtime parking and removal by tow at owner's expense."

Old parking tickets

Past-due parking fines can bring the tow truck on their own. If the registered owner owes fines totaling $60 or more, Section 23-359 allows any vehicle registered to that person to be impounded or immobilized after notice. A hearing request has a ten-day window from the notice, and it goes to the city clerk. To reclaim it, you pay the city the fines and fees, and pay the towing and storage straight to the towing company. See tickets or registration hold.

Iowa paperwork in Black Hawk County

County treasurers issue Iowa titles and junking certificates. The seller signs the title's reverse side, prints who is buying, the buyer's address and the day of sale, and hands the buyer the last-registered county and expiration date. For a scrap sale, the buyer surrenders the title to a county treasurer for a junking certificate within 30 days. You can also get the certificate yourself and assign it. Keep the plates.

Lost the title? A replacement is $35.00, with a mandatory 5-day wait after the treasurer receives the application.

Nearby

Waterloo sits 5.5 miles off in a straight line. Marshalltown is 40.7 miles and Cedar Rapids 55.1 miles. The Iowa page has the state rules.

Getting an offer

Ask online or call (877) 421-6008. Say which vehicle it is, its mileage, whether it can roll out under power, and where its title is. Got a 15-38 notice already? Give us the service date, since the ten days run from then. Pickup works from a driveway, a garage stall or one of the city lots.