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Check with @flipSo I’m thinking about this and wanted to get some input. I called Ford today to try to get the engine production date on the Bronco (which is at a dealer 2 states away. The dealer didn’t know how to find the engine serial number or seem to want to do it). So the person at Ford basically gave me the blend date as the engine production date. I can tell the blend date from seeing the window sticker. Sooo, that wasn’t right.
In another thread I see warranty work doesn’t show up on carfax. That got me thinking. What if the engine in this Bronco failed and was replaced, even if the apparent build date of Oct 22nd is after the hotspots (This assumes an Oct 22 engine build date makes sense with blend date in the first week of November).
So I called Ford again. This person told me they couldn’t tell how to get my engine build date. Then they started reading a number that sounded like The engine serial number. They then said there was a note there stating that they are not allowed to give out the number they had started reading. They never gave me that number (and I said not to If it was going to potentially get them in trouble), but I think it was the engine serial number. They were able to give me the build date of Oct 22nd for the engine though.
Another thing, is that this person told me that the prior owner had one of the 100k mile extended warranties on the bronco. Sure someone can purchase that, but that’s also the one Ford seems to give out to the people who experience engine failures. Things that make you go hmmm.
So does a build date of Oct 22nd make sense for an early November blend date? If so, I should be able to look at the Julian date on the engine actually currently in the bronco. If it’s different than the Oct 22nd date, then I can tell it was an engine replacement, right?
Any other way to figure out if the engine was previously replaced?
On a side note, I am learning TONS of stuff going through this process.
He can prob look it up for ya
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