2018 Hyundai Kona Electric
VIN KMHK281HFKU003538
Outcome not recorded — whether the car sold, and for how much, is not in our data.
15 photographs on file.
- Fuel
- Electric
- Mileage
- 172,146 km
- Displacement
- —not stated in listing
- Exterior colour
- —
- First registered
- —
- Factory price
- —
- Lot no.
- D24-0216052
- End date
- 19 Feb 2024
What the VIN says
Identity · what the VIN itself says
Vehicle identification number: KMHK281HFKU003538
From the seller’s listing
Positions 1–3 — the world-manufacturer code.
In our data, VINs starting KMH belong to Hyundai.
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 — KMHK281H — 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
★★ When scrapping, please bid from a company that can remove the electric battery and return it within Jeju Island. ★★ - total loss - Lower body injury - Mileage: 172,146KM (as of 2022.09.14) - VIN: KMHK281HFKU003538 - Jurisdiction: Jeju ★ 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.
“★★ - total loss - Lower body injury - Mileage: 172,146KM (as of 2022.09.14) - VIN: KMHK281HFKU003538 - Jurisdiction: Jeju ★ Free products are not included.”
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
Hyundai Kona · 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
₩1,250만
Clean-market listings
Median mileage in market
90,400 km
Clean-market listings
Against the rest of the file
Hyundai Kona · 2,930 records on file
Odometer standing
Odometer 172,146 km — lower than 7% of the Hyundai Kona odometer readings on file.
Damage mix
63% of the Hyundai Kona records on file carry the Total loss stamp (전손) — this record is one of them.
The file
The Hyundai Kona records on file span 2017–2026; this car is a 2018.
Counted across our own Hyundai Kona 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 KMHK281HFKU003538 · checked 26 Jul 2026
Notified
Feb 2026
[Hyundai] 4 models including Kona electric vehicles - Battery Management System (BMS) related recalls
[현대] 코나 전기차 등 4차종 - 배터리관리시스템(BMS) 관련 리콜
Notified
Mar 2021
[Hyundai] 3 models including Kona electric vehicles - Recalls related to high-voltage batteries (BSA)
[현대] 코나 전기차 등 3차종 - 고전압 배터리(BSA) 관련 리콜
Notified
Dec 2020
[Hyundai] 3 models including Kona EV - Recall related to integrated electric brakes
[현대] 코나 EV 등 3차종 - 통합형 전동식 브레이크 관련 리콜
Notified
Oct 2020
[Hyundai] Kona Electric Vehicle - High Voltage Battery Recall
[현대] 코나 전기차 - 고전압배터리 관련 리콜
Notified
Jan 2019
[Hyundai] 2 models including Kona Electric Car - Front/side airbags
[현대자동차] 코나 전기차 등 2차종 - 정면/측면에어백
Show all 6 campaigns
Notified
Dec 2018
[Hyundai Motor] Kona Electric Vehicle and 2 Other Vehicles - Recalls Related to Side/Curtain Airbags
[현대자동차] 코나 전기차 등 2차종 - 측면/커튼에어백 관련 리콜
6 campaigns on this VIN · 1 open
Elsewhere on the block
Related records · relists excluded
The cohort — Kona at auction
2017–2019 · 1593 records on file
Claim: same maker + model, year ±1 — this VIN excluded.
The same damage, elsewhere
전손 total loss-class records, any make · 70745 on file
Claim: same extracted damage class, any make — a salvage buyer shops the damage before the badge.