2018 Kia Sportage
VIN KNAP781ABJK540938
30 photographs on file.
- Fuel
- Petrol
- Mileage
- 96,164 km
- Displacement
- —not stated in listing
- Exterior colour
- —
- First registered
- —
- Factory price
- —
- Lot no.
- 23-E-91855
- End date
- 26 Jan 2023
What the VIN says
Identity · what the VIN itself says
Vehicle identification number: KNAP781ABJK540938
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 KNAP781A 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 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 — Sportage 4th Generation · Gasoline 2.0 2WD Noblesse · Petrol · 2018
The seller’s account
Machine-translated · original below
Samsung scrapped Front panel group and front glass broken Airbag damage on the driver's seat only Rear left and right rear fender replacement and back panel backdoor panel replaced Rear rear lower body contact side panel replaced Engine mission anomalies Vehicle price: 17,000,000 won
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 · 2018 · 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
₩1,190만
Clean-market listings
Median mileage in market
105,356 km
Clean-market listings
Against the rest of the file
Kia Sportage · 4,741 records on file
Odometer standing
Odometer 96,164 km — lower than 48% 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 2018.
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 KNAP781ABJK540938 · checked 26 Jul 2026
Notified
May 2021
[Kia] Sportage and 2 other models - Recall related to electronically controlled hydraulic devices
[기아] 스포티지 등 2차종 - 전자제어유압장치 관련 리콜
1 campaign on this VIN
The paper trail
Every filed appearance of KNAP781ABJK540938 · 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.
Listing ended26 Jan 2023Odometer at listing: 96,164 km · 30 photographs filed전손 · Total lossOpen this listing →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 — Sportage at auction
2017–2019 · 1294 records on file
Claim: same maker + model, year ±1 — this VIN excluded.
The same damage, elsewhere
전손 total loss-class records, any make · 66442 on file
Claim: same extracted damage class, any make — a salvage buyer shops the damage before the badge.