Know your vehicle details

  1. The Official Ford Support Site
  2. VIN Lookup
  3. Check car by VIN & get the vehicle history
  4. Is Your Car Spying On You?


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The Official Ford Support Site

Who leaves ratings and reviews? Ratings and reviews are provided by customers who have either purchased a vehicle or visited a dealership for service. How are ratings and reviews collected? Customers are invited to participate in a survey administered by MaritzCX, an independent, third-party supplier. Can dealerships edit or remove reviews? No. Ford personnel and/or dealership personnel cannot modify or remove reviews. Are reviews modified or monitored before being published? MaritzCX moderates public reviews to ensure they contain content that meet Review guidelines, such as: ‣No Profanity or inappropriate defamatory remarks ‣Fraud ‣No Personal Identifying information (e.g., customer phone number or email) ‣No Competitor references (e.g., another brand or dealership) ‣Dangerous behavior (e.g. threatening to harm employees or others) ‣Lack of adequate text (e.g., symbols, emoji’s and random letters) Reviews on the product and not the customer’s Sales or Service experience

VIN Lookup

Bodystyle: Engine: Drive type: Final Assembly Point: GET THE REPORT Can I Get a Free VIN Check From CARFAX? Use the VIN decoder above to get key information about your car or a used car you’re considering buying. When you perform a VIN lookup with Carfax’s free VIN check tool, you can learn when and where it was built, the make, model, and trim of the vehicle, the engine it has, and more. From there, you can get information about the model and trim on our How a VIN Decoder Works The 17 numbers and letters in a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) indicate a vehicle’s make, model, when and where it was built, and more. Here’s how a VIN decoder breaks down a VIN number: Country of Manufacturer The first character in a VIN number is the country or region where the manufacturer is located, or the final point of assembly. Usually, this is the country where the car was made, but in some European countries, it may be the country where the automaker is headquartered. Vehicle Manufacturer The second VIN character indicates the manufacturer and the region where the vehicle was produced. The third VIN character indicates the vehicle type or manufacturing division. Taken together, the first three characters of the VIN are the Make, Model & Trim Characters 4 through 8 are the Vehicle Descriptor Section (VDS). They identify the vehicle brand, model, body style, engine type, transmission, and more. Service centers commonly use this information to identify an automaker’s systems so that th...

Check car by VIN & get the vehicle history

How we help you find the best car At CARFAX, we collect events from the lives of millions of used cars from 20 European countries, as well as the USA and Canada. We can then create a vehicle history for every car in our database and make it available to you. The information helps you to check sales data, avoid expensive follow-up costs and negotiate a fair purchase price.

Is Your Car Spying On You?

Modern cars need between 1,000 and 3,000 chips, which came to our attention as a result of the global Your car is constantly listening, collecting and recording information on you, and in a world full of smart everything—televisions, kitchen appliances, speakers—there’s no question that the “If you use CarPlay, for example, then Apple has a record of everything you’re doing in your vehicle, and the same is true with Android,” explains Jean-Paul Schmetz, digital privacy expert and CEO at Ghostery, a company that provides privacy-focused products. What kind of information could your car have stored about you? Marin Tomas/Getty Images Your car knows your name, home and work addresses, garage door codes, phone number and email, as well as where you are, where you’ve been and where you’re going. Cars with microphones and cameras collect voice recordings, and all the data from devices you connect to the vehicle is also collected, which means your text messages, call records, mapped locations, etc. “All the apps you use in the car collect their own information about your habits and activities—like Apple or Google Maps, Spotify, etc.,” Schmetz says. “Unlike on your desktop or mobile browser where you can install specific ad-blocking or anti-tracking software, it is very difficult to block your personal data from leaving the car, so the best thing you can do is go into the settings of all the apps on your devices and manually remove your consent for collecti...