2022 Kia Sportage
VIN KNAPY81BGNK025498
Outcome not recorded — whether the car sold, and for how much, is not in our data.
12 photographs on file.
- Fuel
- Petrol
- Mileage
- 35,884 km
- Displacement
- 1,598 cc
- Exterior colour
- —
- First registered
- —
- Factory price
- —
- Lot no.
- D26-0126005
- End date
- 27 Jan 2026
What the VIN says
Identity · what the VIN itself says
Vehicle identification number: KNAPY81BGNK025498
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 KNAPY81B usually read as Kia Sportage.
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 N reads 2022. 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 — Sportage 5th Generation · Gasoline 1.6 Turbo 2WD · Petrol · 2022–2024
The seller’s account
Machine-translated · original below
★ There is a fire in the engine room while parking/ engine and mission burning/pollution and smoke from indoor soot - total loss - Mileage: 35,884 km (see pictures) - VIN: KNAPY81BGNK025498 - 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 Sportage · 2022 · clean-market comparables
The band covers clean-market retail listings of the same model and year, as of 22 Sep 2026. Read the band as a ceiling for a clean, fully-restored example — not as an estimate for this lot.
Model median price
₩1,450만
Clean-market listings
Median mileage in market
103,162 km
Clean-market listings
Against the rest of the file
Kia Sportage · 4,893 records on file
Odometer standing
Odometer 35,884 km — lower than 82% of the Kia Sportage odometer readings on file.
Damage mix
63% of the Kia Sportage records on file carry the Total loss stamp (전손) — this record is one of them.
The file
The Kia Sportage records on file span 2014–2027; this car is a 2022.
Counted across our own Kia Sportage 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 KNAPY81BGNK025498 · checked 24 Jul 2026
Notified
Oct 2022
[Kia] Sportage - Recall related to electrical wiring
[기아] 스포티지 - 전기배선 관련 리콜
1 campaign on this VIN
Elsewhere on the block
Related records · relists excluded
The cohort — Sportage at auction
2021–2023 · 1205 records on file
Claim: same maker + model, year ±1 — this VIN excluded.
The same damage, elsewhere
전손 total loss-class records, any make · 67969 on file
Claim: same extracted damage class, any make — a salvage buyer shops the damage before the badge.