Hi guys. I'm about to buy a 2nd hand Lariat 2020 and I have the following issue here. Cant visually figure out the difference between the 2.7 and 3.5 engines, maybe someone experienced can give me a clue. Is it written somewhere ? - like on the engine or on the car's body I mean, not on the registration card and so on.
Anyway, the car is sold as 3.5L and the VIN number is 1FTEW1EP0LFA30245.
Now trying to decode this VIN online, I get super confusing results:

• https://myfreevin.com/ and https://parts.ford.com/ are identifying the engine as 2.7
• https://vincheck.info/ is telling me it is a 3.5

Damn confusing, as I just discovered it and I'm supposed to close the deal tomorrow. Any help, advice, useful info is really appreciated. Thank you.

 

P code in VIN=2.7

 

this one is from https://vincheck.info/check/vehicle-specification.php

 

never trust those vin decodors, ran that VIN at work and it comes back as a 2.7 with the 10R80

 

I guess i'm gonna go for a visual inspection. the 2.7 should look like that

 

Looks like 2.7 The 8th digit is the engine code which is p which is a 2.7 where I looked it up.

 

youre right

 

you're perfectly right, I did the visual inspection, is a 2.7L. checked underneath, i couldn't see the oil filter (specific position for 3.5L, like on my current 5.0L), then I checked under the hood, and i found it in the same position like on the picture above. huge disappointment, happy because I checked. I use to tow my boat (almost 2500 kgs), i think this little 2.7 baby would die very very soon.

 

what's 10R80?

 

10 speed transmission. 6 speed is 6R80.