I received my VIN for Wave 1 Lightning!

[TaxmanHog]

refresher...

I had tried following the instructions on this forum, MME forum, and FB to pull the VIN# from my Ford Account reservation page with a Build Date. I don't know why my VIN# wasn't showing up in the same places as the screenshots shown by other Lightning reservists.

But, I was unsuccessful at finding the VIN# in the standard places everyone was finding theirs. It was easy to find my Order Number in the data but was coming up blank on the VIN#.

I kept tinkering around and finally found my VIN# in the Browser Developer tools like everyone else. Just a slightly different area for me. This might also help someone find their VIN if the standard way shows up nothing.

• Firefox
• Login to your Ford.com/ MY ACCOUNT/ go into your Lightning "Reservation & Orders" page
• Click "View" to see your Lightning's configuration info "YOUR ORDER"
• Make sure your Lightning is "Scheduled for Production" with a build date "Week of #/##/2022".
• [F12] to go into Firefox the browser's "Developer Tools"
• My Firefox Developer Tools shows up on the bottom half of the main browser window. In some cases, it may take the right side of the browser window.
• In the Developer Tools larger window, select the [Network] tab and also the [XHR] tab on the upper rows of the Developer Tools window.
• Click inside the Browser window Ford page and press [F5] for Firefox to refresh the browser page. Refreshing the "YOUR ORDER" web page will load up data into the Developer Tools window below.
• On the upper bars of the Developer Tools window, there is a picture drawing of a tiny funnel "FILTER" for you you to input your Order Number ########. Enter only the numbers.
• You'll probably get 2-3 hits in the filter results window below, look for the columns [Type] JSON/ highlight that specific record.
• When you highlight that filter result a smaller window will show itself to the side.
• In the smaller side window [Headers] tab is probably highlighted, click the [Response] tab and data will cache in the smaller window
• Click the "Raw" slider switch to show the raw data. This is the final step that allowed me to see my VIN#.
• Go and click in the smaller cache window results and highlight all the data [CTRL]+"A"
• Open a Word or Notepad document, Paste [CTRL] + "V" all the data into the text document.
• In the Word or Notepad Search for "1FTV" (the first letter is a number one), in my search results, My Lightning VIN# was very near the top of the data dump.
• my data looked like this: "catalogId":"WANAB-TFD-2022-F-150","vin":"1FTVW1EL1NWG05xxx"

Forgot an important step. UPDATED.

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[bosox8]

My build date is the week of 4/18.
I’m starting to think about it a little bit

Still on target with 4/18/22 build date?

 

[TaxmanHog]

Chrome

 

[Farmford42]

Well, that finally worked for me but the tracking page still says no luck! Nice to see a number!

 

[Regular150]

refresher...

Worked on mine thank you. 6/6 build, 6/10 Blend. Lariat ER. Vin won't load into Ford pass but got the window sticker.
BTW, my VIN starts with 1FT6

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