Most people don't call about a junk car because they want money. They call because there's a deadline. A bylaw notice taped to the windshield. A property closing in eleven days. A landlord asking what exactly is going on in the back parking pad. A parent's estate to clear before the house lists.
YEG Cash For Cars removes junk vehicles anywhere in Edmonton, usually within a day, and you get paid instead of billed. No towing charge, no disposal fee, no "recovery surcharge" invented at the curb.
Call (780) 202-2274 and tell us where it's parked.
A dead car in the driveway is an annoyance right up until the moment it becomes a deadline. These are the calls we get most often.
The City of Edmonton's Community Standards Bylaw treats derelict, dismantled or unregistered vehicles stored in public view as a nuisance. A neighbour calls 311, an officer attends, and you receive written notice with a compliance window. Ignore it and you can face a fine — and in some cases the City arranges removal and bills you for it. Once that notice exists, the cheapest outcome available to you is having someone pay you to take the car before the deadline lands.
Realtors want it gone before photos. Buyers want it gone before possession. A rusted Cavalier on the side yard reads as deferred maintenance to everyone walking through, and lawyers don't like loose ends on the property at closing.
This one is genuinely awkward. A tenant vacates a rental in Beverly or Alberta Avenue and leaves an unregistered vehicle in the parking pad. You're a landlord, not the registered owner, and you can't legally sell what isn't yours. Call us anyway — we deal with this monthly and can walk you through what documentation actually satisfies the transfer, and when the vehicle needs to go through the abandoned-property process instead.
After a death, the vehicle in the garage is often the last thing anyone wants to think about and the last thing standing between the family and a closed file. We handle these quietly and can work with an executor holding a grant of probate or the appropriate estate documentation.
Underground stalls and surface lots aren't storage. If a resident's non-running vehicle has become the board's problem, we'll coordinate the removal window with building management.
You're leaving Edmonton in two weeks and the second car doesn't run and won't sell. It's not going with you.
Edmonton has a lot of properties that make towing awkward. Older neighbourhoods like McCauley, Norwood, Parkdale, Highlands and Alberta Avenue have narrow rear lanes with power poles, fences and garages that leave very little room to work. Newer areas like Summerside and The Meadows have tight zero-lot-line driveways with fresh concrete nobody wants gouged.
We handle all of it:
The vehicle doesn't need wheels. It doesn't need brakes that release. It doesn't need to start, steer, or have a key. Our flatbeds carry winches for exactly this — a car with four flat tires and seized calipers gets dragged onto the deck and that's a normal Tuesday.
Most Edmonton junk car removals happen same day or next day. What affects the timeline honestly:
Central and south Edmonton pickups are usually fastest. Runs out to Drayton Valley or Camrose get batched with other jobs in that direction, which may add a day.
A driveway pickup is fifteen minutes. A vehicle winched out of a detached garage down a snow-packed lane takes longer and needs the right truck assigned.
January in Edmonton slows everything. Snow route parking bans, drifted-in alleys and equipment that doesn't love -32 °C all factor in. We still run through it, but we'd rather give you an honest window than a fantasy.
If ownership is straightforward, nothing slows down. If it's an estate, a lien, or a tenant's abandoned vehicle, sorting the paperwork is usually what determines the date — not the truck.
If you're working against a bylaw compliance date, say so on the first call. We'll tell you immediately whether we can hit it.
Keep this simple. You need:
Proof of ownership — the Alberta registration in your name, or estate documents, or lien discharge if it was financed
Photo ID matching that documentation
Your licence plates removed. In Alberta the plates are yours, not the car's. Take them off before we load, and either keep them for your next vehicle or return them to a registry agent.
Keys, if you still have them. If you don't, that's fine — it doesn't change the removal and rarely changes the offer on a junk vehicle.
We provide the bill of sale on site, listing the VIN, odometer, sale price and both parties. You keep a copy. Cancel your insurance after the sale closes, not before — Alberta insurers may owe you a prorated refund on the unused term.
The full walkthrough is on our Alberta paperwork guide.
Here's the part most people don't expect: a vehicle you consider worthless almost always has a real number attached to it.
Even a car that hasn't run in five years carries recoverable weight in steel, a catalytic converter that may contain platinum, palladium and rhodium, aluminum wheels and radiator, copper in the harness, and a set of components that still sell locally. That's why we can tow it for nothing and still hand you cash.
What the offer depends on is covered in detail on our cash for junk cars page, and the scrap-metal side of the math is broken down on cash for scrap cars. If you want to know what happens to the vehicle after it leaves your property, that's on scrap car removal.
The towing itself — including the winching, the awkward-access work and the long rural runs — is explained on free towing in Edmonton, and it is genuinely free rather than quietly deducted from your offer.
We remove vehicles throughout Edmonton and the surrounding communities, including Sherwood Park, St. Albert, Spruce Grove, Leduc, Fort Saskatchewan, Beaumont, Stony Plain, Morinville and the rest of our service area.
Call (780) 202-2274No. Removal and towing are free, and you're paid for the vehicle. There is no disposal fee.
Yes. Our flatbeds are winch-equipped. Seized brakes, missing wheels and sunken vehicles are routine.
Usually. Tell us the date on your first call and we'll confirm immediately rather than guessing.
Not without documentation establishing your right to sell it — estate papers, a lien discharge, or the abandoned-vehicle process for landlords. Call and describe the situation; we'll tell you what's needed.
Yes, subject to clearance. Measure the height and tell us when you book so the right truck is dispatched.
Dig out enough for the driver to reach the vehicle and hook up. If it's fully drifted in, we'll schedule accordingly.
Call (780) 202-2274 with the year, make, model and where it's parked. You'll get a firm number in minutes and a pickup window on the same call.
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