2021 Kia Sorento
VIN KNARK81BGMA022168
35 photographs on file.
- Fuel
- Diesel
- Mileage
- —not stated in listing
- Displacement
- —not stated in listing
- Exterior colour
- —
- First registered
- —
- Factory price
- —
- Lot no.
- 23-E-90346
- End date
- 12 Jan 2023
What the VIN says
Identity · what the VIN itself says
Vehicle identification number: KNARK81BGMA022168
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 KNARK81B 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 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 · Signature · Diesel · 2021–2023
The seller’s account
Machine-translated · original below
Hyundai scrapped car See picture of damaged area - Vehicle rollover accident//engine oil backflow - Engine mission unconfirmed - Mileage unknown KNARK81BGMA022168
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 · 2021 · 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
₩2,450만
Clean-market listings
Median mileage in market
84,805 km
Clean-market listings
Against the rest of the file
Kia Sorento · 5,753 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
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 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 KNARK81BGMA022168 · checked 26 Jul 2026
Notified
Oct 2020
[Kia] 2 models including Bongo 3 - Engine Control Unit (ECU) related recalls
[기아] 봉고3 등 2차종 - 엔진 제어 장치(ECU) 관련 리콜
Notified
Oct 2022
[Kia] Sorento - Transmission Control Unit (TCU) related recall
[기아] 쏘렌토 - 변속기 제어장치(TCU) 관련 리콜
Notified
Mar 2022
[Kia] Carnival and 2 other vehicles - Recall related to fuel supply hose clamps
[기아] 카니발 등 2차종 - 연료공급호스 클램프 관련 리콜
Notified
Sep 2020
[Kia] K5 and 2 other models - ESC module related recall
[기아] K5 등 2차종 - ESC 모듈 관련 리콜
4 campaigns on this VIN · 1 open
The paper trail
Every filed appearance of KNARK81BGMA022168 · 1 appearance
This VIN has appeared 1 time in our records.
Filed the same day across the auction houses — one auction event, recorded more than once. We count it as one appearance.
This is the first time this VIN appears in our records. If it returns to auction, every appearance will be listed here.
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
2020–2022 · 1720 records on file
Claim: same maker + model, year ±1 — this VIN excluded.
The same damage, elsewhere
전손 total loss-class records, any make · 66428 on file
Claim: same extracted damage class, any make — a salvage buyer shops the damage before the badge.