Average Junk Car Offer: What 411 Real Quotes Paid

The average junk car offer in our data is $350. That is the median of 355 real quotes for junk cars, collected online and by phone with local buyers, from June 21 to October 27, 2026, and half of them landed between $255 and $475. Search the full list below for your make, model, year or state.

Look up real junk car offers by make and model

From our offer data: every quote, one row per car. Type a make or model, or filter by type, years or state, and the median for your selection updates as you go. Click a column header to sort.

“No offer” means the request got no dollar quote. If your quote sits inside the middle half for cars like yours, it is a normal quote. If it is under about $275, a local yard will likely pay more; see what junkyards pay by car type.

Average junk car offer by year: $275 to $1,715

Cars from 1996 to 2015 all had a median within $60 of each other. The big jumps are at the ends.

Newer cars are priced on parts and rebuild value, not weight: a 2021 GMC Sierra drew $8,535, a 2019 Toyota RAV4 $6,155 and a 2016 Tesla Model X $4,085. If yours is under 10 years old, read about selling a totaled car before you take a scrap price. Pre-1996 cars split two ways: 16 of 45 got no offer, but a 1988 Toyota Pickup drew $1,590 and a 1995 Ford Bronco $870.

Junk car offers by body type: pickups get the most

Pickups had the highest median and the lowest no-offer rate.

The gap grows when you compare the same age. For 2006–2010 models, pickups had a median of $540 (9 quotes) against $350 for cars (45 quotes). For 2001–2005, it was $370 against $290. Heavier vehicles carry more steel, and old trucks still sell for parts and work.

Junk car prices by make: Toyota $485, Honda $265

Makes with at least 10 requests. Ford and Chevrolet were more than a third of the set.

Honda’s low median comes from the Civic: 13 Civics from 1989 to 2007 had a median of $165, and none topped $450. Toyota’s lead comes from Corollas and Priuses. Toyota’s lead holds up when we adjust for age and body type: Toyota quotes ran roughly 75% above comparable cars from other makes, though the range is wide (about 29% to 137%) with 34 Toyota quotes behind it. Honda showed no such premium. That’s a pattern in our quotes, not a claim about why. With fewer than 15 requests, treat a $50 gap between makes as noise.

Junk car prices by model

Models with at least five requests.

The F-150 is the most predictable: 15 requests, one no-offer, and the middle half between $304 and $478. An old F-150 quoted under $300 is on the low side.

Junk car offers by state: Michigan $475, South Carolina $255

States with at least 10 requests.

Part of the gap is the mix of cars: California’s requests were three-quarters cars, while Ohio’s and Michigan’s were about half trucks, SUVs and vans. Part is tow distance. Regional scrap rates are on our scrap car prices page.

How low and how high junk car offers go

Almost half of all requests (194 of 411) came back between $250 and $499.

All 24 quotes over $1,000 were an SUV, pickup or van, or a car from 2008 or newer. At the bottom, a 2007 Jeep Liberty was quoted $5 and a 2005 Ford Explorer $10. At iScrap’s $183.63 per ton (read October 23, 2026), a 3,000-pound car is worth about $275 for its weight alone, so a quote far under that is a reason to call a yard.

Same car, different quote

Some cars were quoted more than once, and the number moved. A 2007 Dodge RAM 3500 in New Mexico drew $3,150, $2,465 and $2,840 over four days. A 2008 Corvette in Ohio went from $6,245 to $4,050. Two 2005 Camrys in Maryland, quoted the same day, got $830 and $400. Across the 15 vehicle-and-state combinations quoted more than once, 12 got different numbers and 8 differed by $100 or more. Quotes respond to the answers given about whether the car starts, drives, has all its parts and the original catalytic converter. A quote built on generous answers can drop at pickup; our real junk car offers page has seller reports on cuts at the curb.

How the average junk car offer compares with scrap and buyer averages

Our median sits inside the $250–$750 range CarBrain publishes, toward the low end. Monthly medians held between $320 and $370 from June through October. For a quick estimate from your car’s weight, use our junk car value calculator.

Where these numbers come from

From our offer data: real quotes for junk cars, gathered through online quote forms and by calling local buyers and confirming the number, one row per car with year, make, model, state, date and amount.

To compare buyers before you accept, see our junk car buyers list.

Written and fact-checked by the Junk Car Worth team. Prices and buyer policies checked October 2026. How we estimate value.