2018 Kia Sorento /Sorrento
VIN KNAPH81BDKA521233
Outcome not recorded — whether the car sold, and for how much, is not in our data.
9 photographs on file.
- Fuel
- Diesel
- Mileage
- 154,311 km
- Displacement
- —not stated in listing
- Exterior colour
- —
- First registered
- —
- Factory price
- —
- Lot no.
- D23-0101092
- End date
- 19 Jan 2023
What the VIN says
Identity · what the VIN itself says
Vehicle identification number: KNAPH81BDKA521233
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 KNAPH81B usually 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 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.
What the VIN encodes — The New Sorento · Diesel · 2018–2020
The seller’s account
Machine-translated · original below
- total loss - Airbag deployed/mission, lower body damage - Mileage: 154,311KM (as of 2022.12.10) - VIN: KNAPH81BDKA521233 - Jurisdiction: Jeonnam ★ Free products are not included. ★ Please be sure to check the actual condition of the engine, mission, and vehicle under the bidder's responsibility. ★ If there is anything wrong with the vehicle, please contact us before leaving. The successful bidder is responsible for vehicle issues after departure.
“★ Please be sure to check the actual condition of the engine, mission, and vehicle under the bidder's responsibility.”
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 Jul 2026. Read the band as a ceiling for a clean, fully-restored example — not as an estimate for this lot.
Model median price
₩1,580만
Clean-market listings
Median mileage in market
112,365 km
Clean-market listings
Against the rest of the file
Kia Sorento · 5,755 records on file
Odometer standing
Odometer 154,311 km — lower than 22% 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 2014–2026; 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 KNAPH81BDKA521233 · checked 27 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
Elsewhere on the block
Related records · relists excluded
The cohort — Sorento at auction
2017–2019 · 1711 records on file
Claim: same maker + model, year ±1 — this VIN excluded.
The same damage, elsewhere
전손 total loss-class records, any make · 66437 on file
Claim: same extracted damage class, any make — a salvage buyer shops the damage before the badge.