2021 Kia Sorento
VIN KNARL81BHMA089940
Outcome not recorded — whether the car sold, and for how much, is not in our data.
5 photographs on file.
- Fuel
- Diesel
- Mileage
- —not stated in listing
- Displacement
- —not stated in listing
- Exterior colour
- —
- First registered
- —
- Factory price
- —
- Lot no.
- 22-E-75072
- End date
- 15 Sep 2022
What the VIN says
Identity · what the VIN itself says
Vehicle identification number: KNARL81BHMA089940
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.
In our data, VINs starting KNARL81B read as Kia Sorento.
Agrees with the listing.
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 M reads 2021. Model-year codes repeat every 30 years, so the reading nearest the listing’s own year is the one shown.
Agrees with the listing.
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.
What the VIN encodes — Sorento 4th Generation · Diesel · 2021–2023
The seller’s account
Machine-translated · original below
Engine, mission unconfirmed Mileage unknown flood damage KNARL81BHMA089940
Also stated in the listing
원문 — the seller's Korean original
Damage · as flagged in the seller’s listing
Flood
The listing writes this car off as flood‑immersed. Water is a class of damage, not a repair estimate — assume the wiring, electronics and interior are compromised until a teardown proves otherwise.
Also stated in the listing
- front
- engine
- left
- right
- roof
- interior
- airbag
- frame
- underbody
- rear
Where the market sits
Kia Sorento · 2021 · 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
₩2,430만
Clean-market listings
Median mileage in market
87,396 km
Clean-market listings
Against the rest of the file
Kia Sorento · 5,932 records on file
Odometer standing
This listing states no odometer reading, so it is not placed against the other Kia Sorento listings on file.
Damage mix
7% of the Kia Sorento records on file carry the Flood stamp (침수) — this record is one of them.
The file
The Kia Sorento records on file span 2014–2027; this car is a 2021.
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 KNARL81BHMA089940 · checked 26 Jul 2026
Notified
Oct 2022
[Kia] Sorento - Transmission Control Unit (TCU) related recall
[기아] 쏘렌토 - 변속기 제어장치(TCU) 관련 리콜
1 campaign on this VIN
Elsewhere on the block
Related records · relists excluded
The cohort — Sorento at auction
2020–2022 · 1761 records on file
Claim: same maker + model, year ±1 — this VIN excluded.
The same damage, elsewhere
침수 flood-class records, any make · 5486 on file
Claim: same extracted damage class, any make — a salvage buyer shops the damage before the badge.