Sell your damaged Kia Picanto
City driving is the Picanto's entire purpose, and city driving is where it gets hurt. The cars we buy have almost always been damaged inside urban limits — clipped in traffic, reversed into, or caught out at an intersection — with the damage concentrated at one end. What makes a Picanto a write-off is not severity but proportion: on a small, light, inexpensive hatchback, even a contained front impact with airbag deployment costs more to repair than the car is worth.
Get an offer on your Kia Picanto
Tell us what you have and send a few photos. We come back with an offer within 24 hours, collect anywhere in South Africa for free, and pay you on the day we collect.
Get my free quoteWhich Kia Picanto years we buy
We buy Picantos from the 2004 original and the 2011 second-generation car through the 2017 third-generation model and its 2021 and 2024 updates.
Kia Picanto derivatives we buy
We buy every Kia Picanto derivative, petrol or diesel, manual or automatic. The ones we are asked about most often are:
- Picanto 1.0 Start
- Picanto 1.0 Street
- Picanto 1.2 Smart
- Picanto 1.2 Style
- Picanto 1.2 X-Line
Damage we see on the Kia Picanto
Small-car geometry means Picanto impacts spread further than they look. A front knock that would be a bumper-only job on a bakkie typically also takes the bonnet, one headlamp, the radiator support and the crash bar. Side damage from being struck in traffic is common too, and a door skin, mirror and pillar trim on a low-value car ends the repair case quickly.
Whether your Kia Picanto has accident damage, flood or hail damage, a blown engine, or has been written off by an insurer as a Code 2, Code 3 or Code 4 vehicle, we will make you an offer. It does not need to run, and it does not need to be roadworthy.
Before you sell
See everything we buy from Kia, or read Code 2, 3 and 4 vehicles and write-offs explained if you are unsure how your vehicle has been coded.