Junk car guides
Straight answers from the business that has bought the cars since 2014.
These guides answer the questions Keith Kwitek hears on the phone at KMK Towing & Recovery: what to ask a junk car buyer before you sell, and whether your car is junk or still worth fixing. Keith has bought junk cars in Milwaukee since 2014, and every page is written from those calls. Call (414) 391-4900.
Selling a junk car isn't complicated, but it's easy to get wrong if nobody has told you what to look for. Three mistakes to avoid are taking a high phone quote that drops when the truck arrives, paying for a tow that should've been included, and spending money fixing a car that was already finished. Each guide here deals with one of those decisions in plain language, with no payout figures and no pressure. The facts about how KMK works, free same day pickup, cash paid on the spot, buying with or without a title, are stated where they matter and nowhere else.
Every guide here is built on what Keith Kwitek hears as the car buyer and pickup scheduler at KMK, which he has been since March 2014, working from the yard at 8517 W Kaul Ave since that December. Where a guide gives general car advice, such as how to weigh a repair quote against what the car is worth, it's general advice for any owner, not a KMK rule. Where it describes how KMK handles a sale, it describes exactly what happens when you call: six questions, an offer on the call, and the phone price being the price you're paid.
If you've read a guide and already know the car is done, you don't need to read another. Call (414) 391-4900 with the year, make, model, whether you have the title, where the car is and its condition, and you'll have a cash offer on that call. We buy junk, scrap, salvage, crashed and non-running vehicles across Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, Washington, Racine and Kenosha counties, and the pickup is free and same day.
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Is my car junk or worth fixing?
Is your car junk or worth fixing? Weigh the repair cost against its value, a blown engine or transmission, rust and safety, from a Milwaukee buyer since 2014.
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What questions should you ask a junk car buyer before you sell?
The 6 questions to ask a junk car buyer in Milwaukee: what decides the offer, if pickup is included, if the price can change at the curb, and how to compare.
Common questions
Who writes the KMK guides?
KMK Towing & Recovery publishes them, built on what Keith Kwitek, the owner, hears on the phone. Keith is the person who takes the calls, quotes the cars and schedules the pickups, so the guides are built on the questions he's asked on the phone.
Do the guides tell me how much my junk car is worth?
No. There's no honest way to put a price on a car before anyone has asked about it. The guides explain what decides an offer, the year, make, model, title, location and condition, and how to compare quotes from different buyers. For your number, call (414) 391-4900 and answer those six questions.
Is the advice only for people selling to KMK?
No. The questions to ask a buyer apply to any junk car buyer in Milwaukee, and the guide on whether a car is worth fixing is general car-owner guidance. Use them whoever you end up selling to. We'd rather you made a good decision than a quick one.
What if my question isn't covered in a guide?
Call (414) 391-4900 and ask. Keith answers it on the call. If you want the official rules on titles and ownership, the Wisconsin DMV publishes them and we'll point you to the right page.
Tell us about the car. We call back with a cash offer.
Keith gives you a cash number on the call. That is the number you are paid when we pick the car up, and the pickup is free.
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