2018 Kia Sorento
VIN KNAPF81ABKA487399
17 photographs on file.
- Fuel
- Diesel
- Mileage
- 168,008 km
- Displacement
- 1,995 cc
- Exterior colour
- Grayextracted from listing
- First registered
- 2018-06최초등록일, per listing
- Factory price
- ₩2,840만₩28,400,000 new · 출고가격
- Lot no.
- 2025-046586
- End date
- 19 Jun 2025
What the VIN says
Identity · what the VIN itself says
Vehicle identification number: KNAPF81ABKA487399
From the seller’s listing
Positions 1–3 — the world-manufacturer code.
In our data, VINs starting KNA belong to Kia.
Agrees with the listing.
Positions 4–8 — the descriptor. Here the maker encodes what the car is: the model, body and equipment.
The first eight characters — KNAPF81A — do not appear in our data, so no model can be read from them.
Position 9 — the check digit.
Shown exactly as the listing published it — we do not verify the check digit.
Position 10 — the model-year code.
Code K reads 2019. Model-year codes repeat every 30 years, so the reading nearest the listing’s own year is the one shown.
The seller’s listing says 2018; the VIN reads 2019. Both stay on file exactly as they came — we settle neither.
Position 11 — the assembly-plant code.
Plant codes are each maker’s own. We hold no list of them, so this character is shown, not decoded.
Positions 12–17 — the serial number.
Nothing is decoded from it. It is what makes this VIN one car rather than a model.
The seller’s account
Machine-translated · original below
** Our company is in the process of scrapping!! Area: Anseong transit conditions** It is in a conductive state. Please take a look at the photos and apply. Car name:Sorento 5-seater 2.0 diesel 2WD luxury Shipping Price: 28,400,000 won Model Number:UM5ABG-L-8 Format year: 2019 Date of first registration:2018-06-19 Color:grey Mileage: 148,016 km Performance check validity period: 2024-06-19 ~ 2026-06-18
“Area: Anseong transit conditions** It is in a conductive state.”
Also stated in the listing
원문 — the seller's Korean original
Damage · as flagged in the seller’s listing
Total loss
The stamp is the seller’s own word for the damage, printed as the listing filed it — the seller’s classification, never our assessment.
Also stated in the listing
- front
- engine
- left
- right
- roof
- interior
- airbag
- frame
- underbody
- rear
Where the market sits
Kia Sorento · 2018 · clean-market comparables
The band covers clean-market retail listings of the same model and year, as of 19 Aug 2026. Read the band as a ceiling for a clean, fully-restored example — not as an estimate for this lot.
Model median price
₩1,550만
Clean-market listings
Median mileage in market
115,650 km
Clean-market listings
Against the rest of the file
Kia Sorento · 5,937 records on file
Odometer standing
Odometer 168,008 km — lower than 17% of the Kia Sorento odometer readings on file.
Damage mix
63% of the Kia Sorento records on file carry the Total loss stamp (전손) — this record is one of them.
The file
The Kia Sorento records on file span 2014–2027; this car is a 2018.
Counted across our own Kia Sorento records. A VIN that comes back to the block is filed again, so these are listings on file, not cars.
Recall notices
The official databases were asked about KNAPF81ABKA487399 · checked 24 Jul 2026
Notified
Mar 2022
[Kia] Sorento and 2 other vehicles - Recall related to electric auxiliary heaters (PTC)
[기아] 쏘렌토 등 2차종 - 전기식 보조 히터(PTC) 관련 리콜
1 campaign on this VIN
The paper trail
Every filed appearance of KNAPF81ABKA487399 · 2 appearances
This VIN has appeared 2 times in our records. Odometer across the trail: 168,008 km (Jun 2025) → 168,008 km (Jun 2025) — no change in 1 day.
Filed the same day across the auction houses — one auction event, recorded more than once. We count it as one appearance.
Listing ended20 Jun 2025Odometer at listing: 168,008 km · 17 photographs filed전손 · Total lossOpen this listing →Relisted the next day · odometer unchanged
Filed the same day across the auction houses — one auction event, recorded more than once. We count it as one appearance.
Listing ended19 Jun 2025Odometer at listing: 168,008 km · 17 photographs filed전손 · Total lossOpen this listing →Outcome not recorded — whether the car sold, and for how much, is not in our data.
Elsewhere on the block
Related records · relists excluded
The cohort — Sorento at auction
2017–2019 · 1740 records on file
Claim: same maker + model, year ±1 — this VIN excluded.
The same damage, elsewhere
전손 total loss-class records, any make · 67988 on file
Claim: same extracted damage class, any make — a salvage buyer shops the damage before the badge.