The Kia nobody calls an EV is still one we buy.
If what you are selling is a Sorento, a Carnival or a Sportage with a hybrid badge on the back, this page means you as much as the electric ones.
The inspector still comes to you, the battery is still assessed rather than waved past, and the handover is a date we agree with you.
- Australia wide
- Finance settled directly
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The model pages
If it is one of these two, start there instead
- Sell your Kia EV6
- Written for the seller who has half decided to advertise it themselves. That page does the comparison honestly, the strangers and the weekends included.
- Sell your Kia Niro EV
- Three cars share the Niro badge and only one of them is this one. That page settles which you have before anybody puts a number on it.
The whole range
Find the badge that is on the back of yours
Battery electric, plug in hybrid, hybrid and mild hybrid. Four kinds of Kia, one list, and every car on it is one we buy.
Plug in hybrid
- Niro Plug-in
- Sorento Plug-in
Hybrid
- Niro Hybrid
- Sorento Hybrid
- Carnival Hybrid
Mild hybrid
- Sportage MHEV
- Sorento MHEV
The EV9, the EV5, the EV3 and the Soul EV have no page of their own here, and neither do the plug in and hybrid versions of the Sorento and the Carnival, or the mild hybrid Sportage. Every one of them goes through the same valuation as the two that do. Pick the name that matches the badge on the back of your car, put the year and the kilometres in, and the rest of it happens on the call.
The list is worth reading rather than scrolling past, because it settles the thing people arrive here uncertain about. If your car is on it, it counts, and you do not have to decide in advance which category somebody would file it under.
The badge on the back
The part of the car nobody in the house talks about
A hybrid Sorento is the wagon, the Carnival is the bus, the Sportage is just the car. The badge came with it and then stopped being mentioned.
The two cars at the top of this page are the Kias people search for by name. They are not the ones most likely to be standing in a driveway when somebody decides it is time to sell. That car is a Sorento doing the school run, a Carnival that has been to the coast and back with everybody in it, or a Sportage that has simply been the car. There is a badge on the back of each of them, and in a household like that it is not something anyone thinks about twice.
Which is fine until it is time to sell, because the part of the car nobody in the house talks about is still a part somebody has to assess. Sold to a buyer who has filed it as an ordinary family wagon, it gets an ordinary family wagon's once over. The battery and the system around it are either looked at properly or they are quietly skipped, and quietly skipped only ever runs one way. It is not that anybody sets out to underpay you. It is that assessing a thing takes longer than ignoring it, and the person ignoring it is not the one who loses.
The other thing about a car a household is arranged around is that agreeing to sell it is not the same as being able to hand it over. So the inspector comes to your home or your work rather than the car disappearing for a day, the paperwork goes to your phone, and the handover is a date we agree with you. If the replacement keeps moving, take the number away and come back when it settles. Asking starts nothing and there is nothing to cancel.
Two questions
What Kia sellers ask before anything else
Do you buy the Kia hybrids, or only the electric ones?
All of them. Battery electric, plug in hybrid, hybrid and mild hybrid, which takes in the Sorento, the Carnival and the Sportage as well as the EV6 and the Niro EV. The list further up this page is the whole of it.
Can I get a price now and sell the car later?
Yes, and it is the usual way round for a car the household still depends on. A number given today is built on the car as it is today, so if the replacement is months away, come back to us when you are closer and we look again. Asking does not start a clock.
Send the Kia through, hybrid badge and all.
No obligation. Send the car details through and we call you back with a real price range.