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None of those would be fixed by replacing the battery. Or did you replace the battery and then all of those stopped working?
You can tell of blade fuses are blown if you full them and hold them up to the light. That is a whole lot of stuff not working. I would say you need a good auto-electrician.
The fuse box is located behind the cover below the driver's side of the instrument panel. The location of the fuses in the passenger compartment: KIA Sorento ( ...
go to www.kiatechinfo.com and make a free account, you then logon and can see all the repair info that the factory technicians use. It can be hard to navigate though.
The idler pulley deflects out of the way using a special wrench, the pulley is held against the belt only by a preset spring tension mechanism. You put the wrench on the bolt or in the square drive hole and deflect the pulley away from the belt, it must be manually held there to put the new belt on and then released to tension the new belt.
First remove the engine plastic cover by removing the bolts that hold in. Then loosen the nuts at the front of the AC Belt and Power Steering Belt. Now use a Socket set and loosen these two belts by turning the tension adjustment bolt, Anti-Clockwise.
You have to remove the first two belts (AC & Power Steering) before reaching the Serpentine Belt.
Now loosen the nut on the front of the lowest pulley before loosening the serpentine belt.
To loosen the serpentine belt, you could either remove the metal skid plate at the bottom of the engine by turning the tension adjustment bolt, Anti-Clockwise or reach down from the top and loosen it with the socket set ( quick & easiest)
Timing belt replacement is expensive. Usually nobody chooses to have it done, unless there a timing cover gasket fails, or some other reason to work in the area of the internal timing belt.
If you are speaking of the serpentine belt, every 45-60k.
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