2023 Kia Sorento Hybrid
VIN KNARK81GBRA255497
18 photographs on file.
- Fuel
- Hybrid
- Mileage
- 2,435 km
- Displacement
- 1,598 cc
- Exterior colour
- Creamextracted from listing
- First registered
- 2023-11최초등록일, per listing
- Factory price
- ₩4,849만₩48,490,000 new · 출고가격
- Lot no.
- 2024-019864
- End date
- 21 Mar 2024
What the VIN says
Identity · what the VIN itself says
Vehicle identification number: KNARK81GBRA255497
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 KNARK81G 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 R reads 2024. 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 2023; the VIN reads 2024. 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 — Sorento 4th Generation · Noblesse · Hybrid · 2021–2023
The seller’s account
Machine-translated · original below
** Our company is in the process of scrapping!! Area: Anseong transit conditions** Please refer to the picture. The roof attached to the vehicle will not be sold. Excluding, please calculate the sale amount □ Be sure to check information such as the requirements, requests, and KASA for the vehicle workshop Vehicle name:Sorento 6-seater HEV 1.6 signature 2WD A/T Factory price: 48,490,000 won Model Number:MQ4H6GBE-K8-G5A Format year:2024 Date of first registration: 2023-11-28 Color: off-white Performance check validity period: 2023-11-28 ~ 2027-11-27
“Area: Anseong transit conditions** Please refer to the picture.”
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 · 2023 · 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
₩2,990만
Clean-market listings
Median mileage in market
60,641 km
Clean-market listings
Against the rest of the file
Kia Sorento · 5,846 records on file
Odometer standing
Odometer 2,435 km — lower than 99% 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 2023.
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 KNARK81GBRA255497 · checked 26 Jul 2026
Notified
Jan 2025
[Kia] Two models including Sorento Hybrid - recall related to body domain control devices
[기아] 쏘렌토 하이브리드 등 2차종 - 바디 도메인 제어장치 관련 리콜
Notified
Dec 2024
[Kia] 2 models including Sorento - Recall related to daytime running lights
[기아] 쏘렌토 등 2차종 - 주간주행등 관련 리콜
2 campaigns on this VIN
The paper trail
Every filed appearance of KNARK81GBRA255497 · 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
2022–2024 · 1030 records on file
Claim: same maker + model, year ±1 — this VIN excluded.
The same damage, elsewhere
전손 total loss-class records, any make · 67127 on file
Claim: same extracted damage class, any make — a salvage buyer shops the damage before the badge.