I just looked at mine and it should not be a problem but you can't drop it down with a trailer attached. The ball height mine is 3"s leaving like 1" to spare also depends on How far in you put the hitch😉
Yea I'm half tempted to cut off the where the chains hook up and re-weld a new plate also it looks like if you pull the bolts for the plastic bumper it helps
Once again priority 19 code is set by default when your order is placed from the dealer to Ford nothing to worry about! Only a problem if you have too many options added on to your build otherwise get over the priority 19 code
Somebody posted a complaint with the harmonic balancer between the engine and transmission starting to fail on some of the hybrids causing the shuddering, No recalls yet but a don't mean much
It appears that would make sense as the XL doesn't have the tie-downs and the XLT does have them in the bed, I'm surprised (not really) That when I ordered mine for my truck the parts guy didn't know that because I have the XLT with the bed tie-downs and would have been nice to have access to...