Arriving this winter.
Get a winter-ready vehicle lined up before you land. Search Minot, choose a listing and send a Hold request. Your request goes to the Myndauto team. A person in Minot confirms it with the dealer.
A Hold is a request.
We'll ask the dealer to hold it and confirm the out-the-door price in writing. Nothing is charged and nothing is final until you sign at the dealer.
The dealer sets the price and availability. Myndauto never sells, brokers or takes payment for a vehicle.
Your arrival checklist
- Search Minot inventory and save the vehicles you want to ask about.
- Use a Hold request on a listing and ask for the out-the-door price in writing.
- Check the block heater, battery and tires before you commit.
- Review the non-resident service-member rules below for your registration and license.
- Compare a pre-approval with the dealer's financing offer.
Shopping advice. The registration and license rules are sourced below.
Keep your home-state registration
Non-resident service members stationed in North Dakota may keep their vehicle registered in their home state with current plates; North Dakota registration is not required.
Source: NDCC 39-04-18(2)(i)
Keep your valid out-of-state license
Service members stationed in North Dakota with a valid license from another state are exempt from switching to a North Dakota driver's license.
Source: NDCC 39-06-02(1)(c)
Registration with the base
Vehicle registration with the base is no longer required on Minot AFB.
North Star Community Credit Union ↗
210 Summit Dr, Minot AFBNot an endorsement; no lender pays to appear.
Source: North Star · branch locations · Reviewed Oct 17, 2026
Know the rules.
These excise-tax exemptions have specific conditions. Check which one applies before you plan the cost of a purchase or transfer.
A qualifying lease
A vehicle leased by a non-resident service member stationed in North Dakota and registered in another state is exempt from North Dakota's motor vehicle excise tax.
Source: NDCC 57-40.3-07(5)
A qualifying transfer without payment
A vehicle transferred without payment within 30 days before entering, while in, or within 30 days after discharge from the armed forces is exempt from the excise tax (form SFN 17147).
Source: NDCC 57-40.3-04(4)
For the ordinary purchase calculation, use the out-the-door calculator.
Shopping on a Sunday?
North Dakota law bars dealers from selling a vehicle on Sunday (NDCC 39-22-07.1). Ask and Hold requests can be submitted any day.
Source: NDCC 39-22-07.1
PCSing out.
Selling your car? Myndauto checks which local dealers are buying, free. Your request goes to a person in Minot who contacts the dealers. You arrange the sale with the buyer.
Your departure checklist
- Gather the title and check whether a lienholder is listed.
- If there is a lien, arrange the release with the lienholder. The form is SFN 2876 ↗.
- Ask Myndauto to check which local dealers are buying.
- Agree on the sale with the buyer and arrange signed-title delivery.
- Remove your plates when you sell. Plates stay with the seller.
Source: NDCC 39-05 · title transfer & lien release
Source: NDDOT · forms
Source: NDCC 39-04 · plates stay with the seller
Finish the title handoff.
Check the title and arrange any lien release before completing the sale. Use SFN 2876 ↗ for the Release of Lien by Legal Owner. Arrange delivery of the signed title to the buyer.
Source: NDCC 39-05 · title & lien release
Source: NDDOT · lien-release form
The buyer must submit the signed title to the Motor Vehicle Division within 30 days of receiving it.
Source: NDCC 39-05-17
Plates stay with the seller in North Dakota; the buyer registers the vehicle and pays a full year's registration, set by weight and age.
Source: NDCC 39-04