Ford VIN decoder website

[Golden_HVAC]

You can find your vehicle assembly plant, engine size, ect with this VIN decoder.

https://www.fleet.ford.com/maintenance/vin_tools/default.asp

I found out mine is a F53 chassis, V8, assembled in Mexico.

Yes I already knew that, but it is a cool website anyway.

I also found a towing guide for 2007 models.

http://www.fleet.ford.com/towing-guides/

You can find 2003 to present model year.

Fred.

[transamz9]

Golden_HVAC wrote:
This still works great!

If you want to find the rear axle ratio, look on the VIN sticker on the drier's front door, look for the axle code at the bottom, and then look it up in the towing guide for your Ford Vehicle.

https://www.fleet.ford.com/showroom/rv_trailer_towing/2009/2009_default.asp

You can find towing guides for 2002 - 2012 Ford vehicles with the link above. At the bottom of the guide, there is a axle de-coder.

Basically I found that those ending in 2 is the 4.10, while 3.55 ends in 9, and 3.73 rear ratio ends in 4 (IE 24 or 34, while limited slip is B4 and C4.

Standard - - - - Limited slip
3.55 29/39 - - - Not Available
3.73 24/34 - - - - B4/C4
4.10 22/32/52/56/82 B2/C2/E2/E6/F2

If the vin starts with a 1 it's USA, 2 is Canada , 3 is Mexico and so on.

[masterfx]

Here's the universal Ford VIN decoder. It works for both US and EU VIN numbers.

[2oldman]

mobilefleet wrote:
you can also find that at vindecoder.com

Doesn't work for me. Try vin-decoder.org

[Golden_HVAC]

New web page is required to get to the towing guides.

http://www.fleet.ford.com/towing-guides/

Fred.

[Golden_HVAC]

It is handy to be able to look up the older towing guides online now.

Fred.

[NewsW]

I tested a few VINs on it, and gotta be careful, because there were some doozie errors on it.

[Golden_HVAC]

I was trying to find out if the current model year Flex is towable, but the website at Ford in all their thoughtfullness does not allow anyone to download the entire brochure anymore, only the 2-5 pages that are for each model, so the section that says "These vehicles are towable" is not listed in the Flex download of page 21 and 22. What idiots!

My rant for the night, perhaps I can use the link above to click on the towing guide and get the whole guide, not just 4 pages of it.

Fred.

[arizal]

Road2Show wrote:
Check out this cool VIN decoder. You'll find more useless information about your rig than you ever thought possible! It even compares your complete configuration to everything else in the database to determine how common or rare it might be. It told me there were only 4 exact matches to my rig. Yeah right.

http://www.compnine.com/vid.php

Unfortunatly the Compnine web site shut down forever a couple of months ago. I used it often and now miss it.
ArizAl

[Golden_HVAC]

This still works great!

If you want to find the rear axle ratio, look on the VIN sticker on the drier's front door, look for the axle code at the bottom, and then look it up in the towing guide for your Ford Vehicle.

https://www.fleet.ford.com/showroom/rv_trailer_towing/2009/2009_default.asp

You can find towing guides for 2002 - 2012 Ford vehicles with the link above. At the bottom of the guide, there is a axle de-coder.

Basically I found that those ending in 2 is the 4.10, while 3.55 ends in 9, and 3.73 rear ratio ends in 4 (IE 24 or 34, while limited slip is B4 and C4.

Standard - - - - Limited slip
3.55 29/39 - - - Not Available
3.73 24/34 - - - - B4/C4
4.10 22/32/52/56/82 B2/C2/E2/E6/F2

[Road2Show]

Check out this cool VIN decoder. You'll find more useless information about your rig than you ever thought possible! It even compares your complete configuration to everything else in the database to determine how common or rare it might be. It told me there were only 4 exact matches to my rig. Yeah right.

http://www.compnine.com/vid.php

[mobilefleet]

you can also find that at vindecoder.com and for pre-1981 classic cars try vinwiz.com

[Chuck_Gail]

Neat, thanks! Says my Ford is made in USA. Cool, all 3 of our cars are American made. I wondered about the Ford.