The Kia Sorento is one of the easier SUVs to mount a cell phone, tablet or GPS. Lots of space. No bazaar curves. Lots of different places will work well in a Kia Sorento but there were a few mounts and holders that simply won’t work.
Mount Analysis
A photo of the interior of a Kia Sorento accompanies this article. My vent mount is attached to the right of the driver.
The windshield will work well. So will the air vents. The cup holders are very usable but the seat bolt cannot be accessed.
Mount Recommendations
Due to the normal angle of the windshield, a suction mount is a great choice for your phone. I’ll recommend my go-to mount for this location which is the Arkon MegaGrip Suction Cup Windshield and Dash Mount. The suction mount features a vacuum locked suction assembly attached to a pivoting arm. The phone can swivel into any orientation. The mount also comes with an adhesive disk that you can stick to the dash to turn the mount into a console mount. The suction assembly can adhere to the adhesive disk just like it would on a windshield. I use this mount all the time and it works great.
The same mount but for a Garmin GPS is the Arkon Windshield Dash Garmin Nuvi Suction Mount. I have recommended this one over the many years it has been available and have used it myself. It’s an excellent mount that comes with a 2-year warranty. It’s more rugged and longer than the Garmin mount you received in the box.
You may also want to consider an extra long suction cup solution such as the Arkon Extendable Smartphone and Midsize Tablet Mount. The cradle is spring-loaded and expands to over 7 inches . It’s going to fit most smartphones and tablets up to an Apple iPad Mini. The mount itself has a metal arm that can extend from 14.5 to 18.5 inches. The cradle rotates 360 degrees so your tablet can be in portrait or landscape mode. The suction cup has a vacuum lock to maintain a secure connection. The metal arm will keep the tablet very steady in normal environments.
The Kia Sorrento vents are fairly standard and have horizontal slats which makes mounting a phone or GPS very easy. One of our favorites is the Andobil Air Vent Mount. This mount can be used to hold most phone models with or without a case. The ball and socket design facilitates a 360 degree rotation. The included cradle opens to accommodate phones from four to seven inches. The mount uses a unique locking clip to securely attach to horizontal and vertical vents.
The Andobil Air Vent Mount can also be used for a Garmin GPS. All Garmin vehicle GPS devices made over the past ten years include a custom cradle that has a 17mm socket on the back. Remove the cradle from the Andobil mount and you have a 17mm ball. Just snap the Garmin cradle onto the mount minus the cradle and your GPS can be mounted to the air vent.
We took a deep dive into the Andobil car air vent mount which is worth a few minutes to check out.
The Kia Sorento has a nice large dash. You can use the two suction mounts I mentioned already as they both come with an adhesive disk so that you can use it on a flat dash surface. This option is best for states where mounting to a windshield is illegal.
A CD player mount is going to work just fine thanks to the Kia Sorento placement. We still like the Apps2Car CD Slot Mount uses a knob on the bottom to secure the mount within the CD player. I prefer this mount to others in this category as it will permit a more custom and secure fitting. You don’t want the mount to rattle around inside the player. The cradle opens to almost 4 inches which is wide enough for most phones and many GPS devices.
A cup holder mount is probably the best place to mount a larger tablet in a Kia Sorento. The Cellet Car Cup Holder Mount for Tablets and Phones is a nice choice for almost any tablet (or phone) and fits large tablets all the way up to an Apple iPad Pro. This cup holder mount features an adjustable arm for angling and it swivels into any orientation. The cup holder mount fits up to 3.5 inches diameter and that means a Kia Sorento will get along real well with this mount.
That was one of the easier vehicles to mount a device. The only bad location is the seat bolt but you can use any of the other mounting locations without as problem in a Kia Sorento.