2018 Kia Sorento
VIN KNAPG81ABJA448585
10 photographs on file.
- Fuel
- Diesel
- Mileage
- 79,197 km
- Displacement
- —not stated in listing
- Exterior colour
- —
- First registered
- —
- Factory price
- —
- Lot no.
- 23-E-123856
- End date
- 10 Nov 2023
What the VIN says
Identity · what the VIN itself says
Vehicle identification number: KNAPG81ABJA448585
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 KNAPG81A 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 J reads 2018. 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 — The New Sorento · Diesel · 2018–2020
The seller’s account
Machine-translated · original below
See a picture of the damaged area of the scrapped car at Hanasonbo - Accident engine mission that collided with a large vehicle that was going straight from left to right while going straight at the intersection was unconfirmed, adjustments cannot be reversed after successful bid 2022/03 Original injury mileage 79,197 km Hanasonbo scrapped See picture of damaged area - An accident that collided with a large vehicle that was going straight from left to right while going straight at an intersection Engine mission unconfirmed Adjustments cannot be reversed after winning 2022/03 Yuanbusang Mileage 79,197 km KNAPG81ABJA448585
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 Aug 2026. Read the band as a ceiling for a clean, fully-restored example — not as an estimate for this lot.
Model median price
₩1,550만
Clean-market listings
Median mileage in market
115,650 km
Clean-market listings
Against the rest of the file
Kia Sorento · 5,942 records on file
Odometer standing
Odometer 79,197 km — lower than 62% 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 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 KNAPG81ABJA448585 · checked 26 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
The paper trail
Every filed appearance of KNAPG81ABJA448585 · 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
2017–2019 · 1744 records on file
Claim: same maker + model, year ±1 — this VIN excluded.
The same damage, elsewhere
전손 total loss-class records, any make · 68017 on file
Claim: same extracted damage class, any make — a salvage buyer shops the damage before the badge.