About YEG Cash For Cars
We Come to You, You Get Paid on the Spot
About YEG Cash For Cars
We buy end-of-life vehicles across Edmonton and the surrounding region — running, non-running, junk, scrap, wrecked, rusted and written off — tow them free, and pay cash before they leave your property.
That's a service plenty of companies offer. What follows is how we do it differently, because in this industry the differences are the entire story.
The Quote Is the Payment
The most common complaint about cash-for-cars operators is a specific tactic: quote high on the phone to win the booking, then arrive, walk around the vehicle for two minutes, find something, and drop the number by half. The car is already hooked up. You've mentally moved on. Most people accept.
We don't do this. The number you're given over the phone is the number placed in your hand. The only thing that ever revises a quote is discovering the vehicle isn't what was described — a catalytic converter that was cut off, an engine that's missing, damage that wasn't mentioned. Describe it accurately and the figure holds.
This is why we ask more questions than some buyers do. An accurate quote requires accurate information, and we'd rather spend four minutes on the phone than have an awkward conversation in your driveway.
Towing Is Actually Free
“Free towing” in this industry frequently means free within a small radius, free unless winching is required, or free in the sense that the cost was quietly subtracted before you heard a number.
Ours means: no charge, no distance limit within our service area, no winching fee, no fuel surcharge, and nothing deducted from your payout. Garage extractions, rear-lane pickups, underground parkades, acreage field recoveries and vehicles with no wheels are all included. Access difficulty is our problem to solve, not yours to pay for.
We’ll Tell You Not to Sell
If your vehicle is worth repairing, we say so.
A no-start after an Edmonton cold snap is sometimes a $200 battery, not a dead car. A newer vehicle with one discrete failure and a solid body is often worth fixing. We'd rather lose a purchase than take a car someone regrets selling a week later — partly because it's the right call, and partly because in a local service business your reputation is the only thing that compounds.
The honest version of the repair-or-sell calculation is on cash for junk cars.
Vehicles Are Recycled Properly
Every vehicle we collect goes through a full end-of-life process before anything else happens.
Engine oil, transmission and differential fluid, coolant, brake and power steering fluid and remaining fuel are drained and captured separately. The battery is pulled for lead reclamation. Refrigerant is recovered rather than vented. Tires enter Alberta's recycling stream. Mercury switches in older vehicles are removed before shredding, because mercury released in a shredder contaminates everything downstream.
Reusable components are then recovered and inventoried — the highest-value form of recycling, since a reused part displaces the entire manufacturing footprint of a new one. What remains goes to a licensed recycler for shredding, where ferrous and non-ferrous metals are separated and re-enter the supply chain.
Nothing gets abandoned in a field. The full process is on scrap car removal.
Paperwork Done Correctly
Every vehicle leaves with a signed bill of sale listing the VIN, odometer reading, sale price and both parties' details. You keep a copy.
This isn't a formality. Until a transfer is documented, the VIN remains associated with you — and if a vehicle is later abandoned or accumulates charges, the trail leads to the last documented owner. Any buyer who doesn't want the transfer recorded is creating a problem for you, not saving you time.
We also walk people through plate removal, insurance refunds, lien discharges and estate documentation, because most sellers do this once or twice in a lifetime and shouldn't be expected to know it. See the Alberta paperwork guide.
We’re Local
We operate out of Edmonton and serve the region around it. 10+ years buying vehicles here.
That matters more than it sounds. A number of “instant online quote” services in this space aren't buyers at all — they're lead-generation sites that sell your phone number to whoever pays for it, which is why you field calls for a week afterwards. Others are national operators subcontracting to whoever is nearest.
We answer the phone, we quote the vehicle, and our own drivers collect it. If something goes wrong, there's one company to talk to.
Being local also means knowing this market specifically: which vehicles have parts demand in Alberta, what winter road brine does to a frame by year twelve, how Strathcona County's bylaw process differs from Edmonton's, and why spring breakup makes acreage recoveries harder.
What We Buy
Cars, trucks, SUVs, vans, work vehicles and fleet units — running or not, any age, any condition. Full list on vehicles we buy, or go directly to what fits:
Junk car removal · Scrap car removal · Cash for junk cars · Cash for scrap cars · Free towing · Non-running cars · Hail damaged cars · Trucks and SUVs
Where We Operate
Edmonton plus seventeen surrounding communities — Sherwood Park, St. Albert, Spruce Grove, Leduc, Fort Saskatchewan, Beaumont, Stony Plain, Devon, Ardrossan, Morinville, Bon Accord, Redwater, Westlock, Vegreville, Wetaskiwin, Camrose and Drayton Valley. Details on the service areas page.
Get in Touch
Call (780) 202-2274 with the year, make, model, kilometres, condition and where the vehicle is parked. You'll get a firm number in minutes and a pickup window on the same call.
