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Selling a car in The Gap? Caraway pays instant cash for cars across The Gap, Upper Kedron, Ferny Grove, Keperra, Bardon, and Ashgrove. Free removal, same-day pickup, and cash on the spot before the car leaves your driveway. We handle the tight driveways, the steep blocks, and the bushy properties that come with Brisbane's western suburbs.
The Gap is one of Brisbane's leafiest and most distinctive western suburbs, stretching along Waterworks Road from Ashgrove out towards Mount Coot-tha and D'Aguilar National Park, with Settlement Road forming the main east-west connector through the middle of the suburb. The area is framed by bushland on three sides and sits on genuinely hilly country — a lot of homes are on steep, heavily treed blocks with long driveways cut into the hillside. That terrain shapes the kind of cars we collect here: plenty of older 4WDs and AWD wagons that families bought for the driveway climbs and the weekend runs into the national park, retired family Camrys and Commodores that have been daily drivers for decades, and second cars that have been sitting in low-set garages for years. The suburb cops its share of severe summer storms coming down off the range, and we've bought a lot of hail-damaged cars from The Gap, Ferny Grove, Upper Kedron, and Keperra after major hail events. Waterworks Road and Settlement Road are the main arterials, and our drivers know which stretches bottleneck during school pickup at The Gap State School and The Gap State High. We also routinely service the adjacent pockets of Bardon, Ashgrove, and Enoggera where the housing stock is older and the driveways are often tighter.
The Gap and its neighbours generate a wide variety of pickups. Older family sedans and station wagons that have been replaced by newer cars. Hail-damaged vehicles from recent storm seasons where owners have taken the insurance cash-out and retained the salvage. Unregistered second cars that have been sitting in carports since the teenagers moved out. Deceased estate vehicles from long-time residents. Retired 4WDs that served the family camping and bushwalking years and now sit unused. For every one of these scenarios we bring the right equipment: winches and extended ramps for the steep hillside blocks, heavy-duty flatbeds for non-running vehicles, and drivers with enough local experience to navigate the narrow back streets that connect the bushier parts of Upper Kedron and Ferny Grove. We also buy plenty of cars from the apartment and townhouse developments along Waterworks Road, where body corporate access and shared driveways are no obstacle. Every quote is firm on the phone before we dispatch a truck, and we pay in cash on pickup for any sale under $10,000.
The Gap has a tight-knit community and a lot of our local pickups come through neighbour-to-neighbour referrals. We've earned that trust by being reliable on time, honest on price, and tidy on the day. Our drivers know the area block by block — which streets have the steepest driveways, which corners the tow truck has to take wide, which bushland-edge properties need extra care for wildlife and fencing. We never reduce a quote because a driveway is tight or a car is hard to access; the price we give on the phone is the price in your hand at pickup. Free towing across the entire western corridor, same-day service for morning calls, and paperwork handled directly with TMR so you're not chasing anything after the car is gone.
Three simple steps to get cash for your car.
Use our online price estimator or fill out our form with your car details.
We'll make a fair cash offer. No obligation if you decline.
We pick up your car free and pay you cash on the spot.
Tell us about the car. We'll call or text back with a price range and next steps — usually within one business day. No obligation.
We usually reply within a few hours during business hours.
Not happy with the offer? No worries — there's zero pressure to accept.