Sell any vehicle in metro Milwaukee for cash, running or not
Cars, trucks, SUVs, vans, motorcycles, ATVs, RVs, boats and whole fleet lots. No cleaning it up, no fixing it, no starting it.
- ✓Wrecked, flooded, high-mileage, no keys01
- ✓The flatbed comes to wherever it's parked02
- ✓Paid at the curb, tow included03
any vehicle
Badger Junk Cars pays cash for almost anything with a VIN across metro Milwaukee, and has done since 2014. Any condition is the whole point. If the frame's rusted through, the transmission's gone, or a deer put it out of service on the interstate, there's still an offer in it.
We buy it outright, take it away on our own truck, and put it through for the metal ourselves — which is why the quote is built from what's physically in the vehicle rather than what someone hopes to resell it for. You get paid the same day. If it has a VIN, we'll quote it.
Where we pick up:
Milwaukee and SE Wisconsin
Milwaukee, 53204
Milwaukee proper
- Bay View
- Riverwest
- Walker's Point
- Bronzeville
- East Side
- South Side
The inner suburbs
- West Allis
- Wauwatosa
- Greenfield
- Cudahy
- Whitefish Bay
- Shorewood
- South Milwaukee
- Glendale
The wider metro
- Oak Creek
- Waukesha
- Brookfield
- Menomonee Falls
- Franklin
- New Berlin
- Pewaukee
- Sussex
- Hales Corners
- Greendale
- St. Francis
The number we quote is the number you keep.
Nothing comes off for the tow, for the distance, or for the fact that the vehicle won't roll onto the truck under its own power. All your address changes is when the flatbed arrives, never what you're paid. Near Milwaukee but don't see your town? Give us the ZIP and we'll confirm before anything gets scheduled.
What vehicles we buy: cars, trucks, SUVs, vans and more
That's the full menu, not just clean late-model trades. Here's what each of the four everyday types usually brings, and the situation it tends to fit. Every range is typical and estimated — your VIN and the vehicle's actual condition set the real number.
Cars and sedans
The commuter that failed emissions. The second car nobody drives anymore. The sedan with a blown head gasket that isn't worth the repair. Most passenger cars land in this band on curb weight and what's still intact under the hood.
When the engine is what ended it →
Pickup trucks
Trucks sit at the top of the board because they're heavy and their converters are worth more, so an intact one alone can swing the offer. Rusted work trucks and rolled half-tons still pay well — this is our highest-volume category.
If it was a crash that ended it →
SUVs and crossovers
An SUV usually out-pays a similar car for the same weight reason, so it tends to land in the upper-middle of the spread. Think of the family hauler with a dead transmission or 220,000 miles on it.
If it stopped moving years ago →
Vans and minivans
Cargo vans and worn-out minivans price close to SUVs, held a little lower by lighter builds and smaller converters. This is the retired delivery van, or the minivan that failed inspection.
Rusted, dented, or picked over →A note on those links: we organise by what happened to the vehicle rather than by body style, because that's what actually moves the number — a rusted-out van and a rusted-out sedan are the same conversation. For anything that isn't a car, truck, SUV or van, the next section covers it.
Motorcycles, ATVs, RVs, boats
and fleet lots we also buy
Most Milwaukee junk buyers stop at four wheels. We don't. Same any-condition terms as the cars — running or not.
$150 – $1,200Motorcycles and ATVs
The winter project that never got finished, the bike with a seized engine, the quad that's been under a tarp for three summers. Paperwork helps, but say so early if it's missing and we'll tell you what's needed.
$500 – $2,500RVs and boats
These start higher because there's simply more material to recover. The camper that failed inspection, the pop-up nobody wants to haul, the boat that hasn't touched Lake Michigan in years. We'll take the trailer with it.
$400 – $2,500 per unitFleet and commercial lots
We clear whole yards of retired work vans, box trucks and service pickups in one scheduled pickup, priced per unit and paid in a single settlement. Contractors, landscapers and shops cycling out old equipment — one call handles the lot.
The heavier things keep landing at the top of these ranges for a reason, and it isn't complicated: weight and converters. That's the next section.
Price a bike, camper or whole lot →Why trucks and SUVs
pay more than cars
Roughly 25 to 45 percent higher than a comparable car, and it comes down to two things: how much the thing weighs, and what's bolted underneath it.
Reason one
Roughly 2×
What a full-size pickup can weigh against a compact sedan. Metal is paid by the pound, so that difference lifts the baseline before anything else is counted.
Reason two
Sometimes 2
Converters on a bigger truck or SUV — and they're larger units than a compact's. Leave them on and they count for you; cut off, the offer drops to match.
A junk vehicle's floor is the metal, and the metal is priced by weight. But the converter is the bigger swing of the two, which is why a truck that's been sitting in a field for six years can still quote above a tidy small car that drives.
We price on what's recoverable, not on whether it turns over.
That's the short version. The full breakdown — how weight, completeness and the daily metal market stack up, with an estimator that runs your own configuration — lives on the value page.
Run your vehicle through the estimator →Questions people ask before selling a vehicle for cash
Six that come up on nearly every first call, answered without the hedging.
Ask dispatch directly →A buyer who scraps the vehicle themselves, because the offer is tied to real recoverable value rather than what someone hopes to resell it for. Badger Junk Cars prices the vehicle itself — what it weighs, what is still bolted to it, and where the metal market opened that morning — with typical car offers running $200 to $1,800.
One common version says that once a needed repair costs more than about $3,000 — or more than the car itself is worth — selling beats fixing. Past that line a scrap buyer often nets you more than another repair bill. Our page on cars with blown engines works the comparison through properly.
Heavier vehicles top the board wherever you sell, because weight and converter size drive the recoverable value. Trucks, RVs, boats and fleet units run up to about $2,500 typical, while a light compact sits at the bottom of the spread no matter who is quoting it.
If it still runs well, a private sale or a dealer trade beats any scrap offer, because you are being paid for resale value rather than materials. Scrap becomes the better route once repairs, mileage or damage push the vehicle past what a buyer would pay to drive it.
Bring it up on the first call, before anything is scheduled. Wisconsin normally completes a vehicle sale on the title, and a registered owner whose copy is missing can request a replacement through the DMV. Tell us which situation you are in and we will tell you what your vehicle needs. No keys and a dead battery are never the problem.
Towing is free on every pickup and is never deducted from the offer, including vehicles that will not start or roll onto the truck on their own. The cash amount quoted on the phone is the amount handed over at pickup.
Get a quote, we pick up,
you get cash: three steps
Usually wrapped up the same day. No back-and-forth, no cleanup, no repairs first.
Get your quote
About a minute
Give dispatch the VIN, year, make, model and rough condition. That's genuinely enough, because those are the same details that set the payout: weight, completeness, and where the metal market sat that morning.
A VIN alone is enough to get started.
Schedule the pickup
Same day, most of the metro
Accept the offer and a flatbed gets booked. You don't need to move the vehicle, charge the battery, or go hunting for keys — the crew handles a dead or wheels-locked vehicle as a matter of routine.
Fleet lots get scheduled as one visit rather than a truck per unit.
Get paid at the curb
Cash, on the spot
The driver confirms the vehicle matches what you described, signs the transfer, tows it free, and hands over the cash before leaving. The quote is the payout.
Grab your plates and anything left in the glovebox first — that's the only prep there is.
The next section is the short version of what decides where in the spread your particular vehicle lands, so you know roughly where the number will fall before you call.
The process in more detail →What sets your payout, and where each vehicle type falls
Across every type, offers run from about $150 to $2,500, and three levers decide where in that spread you land.
Weight sets the floor
There is simply more material in a big vehicle than a small one, so a loaded pickup starts higher than a subcompact before anything else gets counted.
Completeness moves you inside it
The converter matters most by a wide margin. A present battery, wheels, alternator and starter each add a little more on top of it.
The market shifts the whole board
Steel, aluminum and copper are priced daily, so the same vehicle can be worth more one week than the next.
One yard, every kind of sale
Get my cash offer
Turning an unwanted vehicle into cash starts with a quote, and we'll price it fast. Give us the VIN, year, make, model and condition through the form up top, or call and dispatch will quote it right on the phone.
Same-day pickup and free towing come with every offer across the metro, and you're paid cash at the curb. Selling something that isn't a car — a bike, a camper, a whole lot — the same form covers it, or start the quote online.
530 S Muskego Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53204
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