My VIN inside the door is scratched enough that the State can't verify it. They need two locations to match the VIN otherwise the vehicle must be scheduled for a "level 3" vin inspection hundreds of miles away. Well I tried to find one on the engine where the DMV can do a "level 2" vin inspection but I can't find it. Can anyone shed light on where other vin's are on my 2002 Ford 450. Mine is a flat bed. Thanks!

 

The only thing on the engine will the the engine serial number, from Navistar. There should be a metal tag under the hood, near the right headlight with the last 8 digits of the VIN on it. I've heard it's also in a couple spots on the frame rails, but I've never actually verified that.

 

I found that one but the numbers on it don't seem to be the same as the VIN. And the DMV warned me that sometimes tags like this only have part of the VIN and that won't do. Any chance there's one on the engine somewhere? My engine is a bit oily so I can't easily tell.

 

As I said earlier, it isn't on the engine.

 

My engine had the last 8 of the VIN stamped on a machined surface near the back of the oil cooler but it is not a full number