Kia parts from Dubai for export: Frontier, Sorento, Sportage, Cerato, Pegas

Five Kia names carry most of the export interest: the Frontier pickup, the Sorento and Sportage SUVs, the Cerato saloon and the Pegas, a small sedan. They belong to different markets, so this page splits them by country instead of treating Kia as one catalogue. The Frontier and the two SUVs are an Iraq story, the Pegas is a Saudi story and the Cerato follows Egypt. Madagascar is the odd one out, an island that drives on the right and buys Korean cars.

Best Selling Cars Blog reported that the Frontier took 32.1 percent of Iraq's 33,825 new vehicles in 2017, one in three sold. It then led the model table every year from 2014, the earliest year in that report's data, until 2024. That year the market grew 28.8 percent to 161,404 vehicles, Toyota rose to 29.3 percent, Kia slipped to 23.5 from 26.7, and the Hilux took first place with sales up 49.1 percent.

The 2024 result did not last. The full-year 2025 report says the market was flat at 160,737 vehicles, Kia rose to 28 percent and regained the top brand place, Toyota fell to 20.7, and the Frontier returned to first place with 11.1 percent against the Hilux's 8.7. The Sorento was third and the Sportage fifth. In the first half of 2026 the market fell 26.4 percent to 59,006 vehicles, Kia stayed first at 28.1 percent, and the Hilux passed the Frontier again.

The lead has changed hands three times since 2023, so a buyer should stock by the engines and VINs of the trucks on the road, not by one year's table. Iraq had 8,287,604 registered vehicles at the end of 2024, according to the Ministry of Planning, and about 200,000 arrive each year. Our reading, not a measured parts figure: a Frontier sold at the 2017 peak is now nine years old, an age at which brakes, suspension and cooling parts have been replaced at least once. Iraq's rules and routes are on the Iraq page.

The Frontier belongs to Kia's Bongo family of rear-wheel-drive trucks. Wikipedia dates the third generation, the Bongo Frontier, from April 1997, with a 2.7 litre JS engine and an optional 3.0 litre JT. The Bongo III followed in 2005 with a common-rail option, and a 2014 update added a 2.5 litre turbo diesel, kept the 2.7 and 3.0 litre engines on offer and brought a six-speed gearbox.

Iraqi sales reports say only Frontier, and our research notes call the Iraqi truck the K2700, so the badge alone does not tell a parts desk which engine sits under the cab. An order should name the engine code from the engine plate, the gearbox, the cab and body type and the month and year of build. Send the VIN too; a person matches the new part to that, not to the name.

Wikipedia's Sorento article lists the second generation, the XM of 2009, with 2.4 litre petrol fours, 3.3 and 3.5 litre V6 petrols and 2.0 and 2.2 litre R II diesels. The third generation, the UM of 2014, adds a 2.0 litre turbo petrol. The fourth, the MQ4 of 2020, moves to 2.5 litre petrols and a 3.5 litre V6, and the Gulf launch in March 2021 offered the 2.5 and the 3.5.

The Sportage follows a similar pattern. The SL, built from March 2010 to August 2015, used 2.0 and 2.4 litre Theta II petrols and a 2.0 litre R diesel coded D4HA. The QL, from September 2015 to 2021, added a 1.6 litre Gamma and a 2.0 litre Nu. The Cerato's second generation launched in late 2008 as the Forte and kept the Cerato name in the Middle East; the article lists no engines for it, so the engine code must come from the owner.

Wikipedia describes the Pegas as a subcompact sedan built in China by the Yueda Kia joint venture since 2017, with plants in Ecuador and Vietnam as well, and sold as the Pegas in China, Africa and parts of the Middle East. Its engine is a 1.4 litre Kappa II four rated at 94 horsepower, with a five-speed manual or four-speed automatic. It rides on the platform used in the Kia K2, which the same article lists beside the Rio.

In Saudi Arabia in 2025 Kia held 7.8 percent of 857,247 new vehicles, behind Toyota at 28.6 and Hyundai at 15.9, and the Pegas was the fifth best-selling model. Saudi Arabia bans used parts apart from a few certified assemblies, so Pegas owners there buy new service parts: filters, pads, suspension links and belts. A Rio number is a lead, not a match, until a person checks the VIN. Conformity paperwork and the road route are on the Saudi page.

Egypt bans imports of used cars older than a year, so its parc is locally assembled or new-imported. A count of new private-car licences for June 2024, cited by an Egyptian blog from the insurance pool, put Kia third with 956 of 11,851, behind Hyundai with 1,448 and Nissan with 1,101. Our research lists the Cerato among the staples of that parc but found no share. Our reading is that Egyptian buyers lean to genuine and branded aftermarket parts.

Madagascar's L'Express reported in August 2025 that Hyundai is the most bought brand there and that about 10,000 used Korean vehicles, Hyundai and Kia, arrived each year before the pandemic, against 6,000 European ones. Owners struggle to find parts for older models. In Madagascar's own import statistics the UAE was the third source of vehicle parts in 2023, with 15.3 percent. We found no Kia share, and Madagascar has no page of its own here.

Genuine means Kia-branded. OE-brand means a maker that supplies carmakers and sells under its own name; our research files Mobis, Valeo and Bosch there. Quality aftermarket means branded parts built to fit, such as GMB, NPW, Febest, 555 and CTR. Which grade suits a Frontier on daily work or a private Pegas is the buyer's call, and the quote lets you compare the three side by side.

We did not measure a Kia ladder. The one measured in Dubai on 3 November 2026 covered Toyota parts: a genuine front pad set cost about one and a half times the OE-brand set and several times a budget set. Read that as the shape of the market, not as a Kia price. A budget listing can use the word genuine too, so ask for a photograph of the part and its number before you pay.

Send the VIN, the engine code, the month and year of build and the gearbox. For a Frontier add the cab and body type; for an SUV add the trim and whether it is petrol or diesel. Add a photograph of the old part with any number on it, the quantity for each line, the country and the name of your cargo agent in Dubai. Ask for the whole list in one message, and a person replies line by line with the grade named.