2024 KIA SPORTAGE SX

The 2024 Kia Sportage is listed with a salvage vehicle title and “FRONT END” as the auction’s primary-damage classification. Stage 1 reports that the visible evidence supports the front-end damage classification through extensive front-end collision damage. The salvage-title status cannot be confirmed from exterior photographs alone. The vehicle has severe damage concentrated across the front end. The hood is extensively creased and deformed across the front and right-side sections, with a raised, irregular front edge. The front bumper cover, grille assemblies, and both headlamp units are missing, exposing the cooling components, internal structure, mounting areas, and wiring. Broken fascia pieces are visible below and beside the vehicle. The visible front bumper reinforcement and lower support components are irregularly positioned and deformed. The radiator and condenser support area contains broken or displaced plastic ducting, brackets, wiring retainers, and other support pieces. The front right corner has crushed and torn body and plastic components with internal parts and wiring exposed. The front left fender is heavily creased around the hood corner and wheel arch; sections of wheel-arch trim are missing, leaving fasteners and inner components exposed. Additional collision damage includes a pronounced dent and crease in the front left door, as well as extensive cracking and fractured sections across the windshield. Fabric and airbag material are protruding from the outer side bolster of the right rear seat. A light-colored scuff is visible on the lower right rear bumper corner. The VIN decodes this vehicle as a U.S.-built 2024 Kia Sportage SX SUV with front-wheel drive (4x2), a 2.5-liter gasoline GDI THETA III engine, and a five-door body configuration. Factory-decoded equipment includes front, side, and curtain airbag systems, electronic stability control, forward-collision warning, pedestrian automatic emergency braking, lane-departure warning, lane-keep assistance, rear automatic emergency braking, rear cross-traffic alert, and LED low-beam headlamps. The condition of these systems cannot be established from the supplied findings, and the vehicle will require a comprehensive structural, mechanical, electrical, restraint-system, and cooling-system inspection before repair or operation. NHTSA records show recalls for certain vehicles in this model and model-year range. Recall 24V025000 concerns roof molding that may loosen and detach. Recall 24V422000 concerns a possible circuit-board short in the electric power-steering assembly that may result in loss of power steering assist. Recall 25V874000 applies only to certain vehicles equipped with a 4.2-inch screen and a Genuine Kia tow-hitch harness accessory and concerns a software-related instrument-panel display issue. Recall applicability and completion should be verified by VIN with Kia or NHTSA.