etrailer | Installing the EcoHitch Stealth Trailer Hitch Receiver on a 2020 Mercedes-Benz GLS

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Kevin here with etrailer and today I'm gonna be showing you how to install the EcoHitch trailer hitch receiver here on our 2020 Mercedes-Benz GLS. Typically with a Mercedes-Benz you're not really gonna be towing a trailer. You're mostly gonna be hauling maybe a cargo carrier or what we mostly see here and what our neighbor needs today is a spot for them to haul their bike rack. Now this has a two inch by two inch receiver tube, so if you have a 1-1/4 inch bike rack, you are gonna need to get a reducer so you can drop down and actually fit that in there unless your bike rack already has an adapter. Along with that since this is a nicer car, typically you're not gonna wanna have that receiver tube sitting here every single day. You might wanna hide that.

The great thing about this EcoHitch is there is one bolt holding this receiver tube in place so if you reach up in here, you can take that out. Now it is a little bit of a challenge 'cause this is a tight space and we have pretty low clearance to the ground so you might need to also pick up some ramps as well just so you can get a little bit more room in there so you can get your wrench in. You will also need a torque wrench 'cause every single time you take this out and put it back in you are gonna need to re-torque that bolt down. EcoHitch is a more premium option when it comes to trailer hitch receivers. This is gonna have a hammered metal finish on it and it's made of all recycled metal so that you're still having that green effect when you buy your trailer hitch.

Now this does not come with a hitch pin so if you do need to pick one up you'll want a 5/8 hitch pin and clip which you can also pick up here at etrailer. Typically that is gonna come with your accessory that you're putting in here so you might not actually need to pick one up. If you are planning on towing a small trailer and you don't have extension cables already for the safety chain loops you are gonna need to stick with an S style hook. Now you can pick up some extensions that'll allow you to tow with the safety clevis here, but typically you're not gonna be able to get that in there. These safety chain loops on this are sitting right about here and here up behind the fascia.

Give you a closer look, here is where our safety chain loops are. So like I was saying, you definitely wanna get some extensions. You can get like a couple inch chain with some hooks on it. That way you can easily just pop on your safety chains with no problem. Just to give you some measurements with this.

Now typically we'd be outside, we'd be on flat ground. Since it's raining pretty hard outside we are gonna do this inside so we are gonna have to take a little bit off here 'cause it's about an eight inch height up to the lift. So measuring from the ground up to the inside of the top of our receiver tube, we're looking at right around 20-1/2 inches. So if we subtract that eight inches it's gonna be right around 12-1/2. Now typically we like to recommend some kind of adapter to kind of raise stuff up anytime it's below 12 inches. So you have pretty good ground clearance with the hitch. You might not have any issues with the receiver tube but you might have issues when it comes to your shank spacing from the hitch pin hole out. So like if you have a bike rack that folds up or you have a cargo carrier that folds up, you aren't gonna want that to fold so far in that it's now hitting the back bumper. So from the center of our hitch pin hole out to our fascia, we're looking at right around like 4-1/2, 5 inches. So you might want to look at your hitch pin hole on your accessory and just make sure that when you fold up that accessory you got more than five inches of clearance. Now this is a very sturdy hitch and it has a pretty high capacity when it comes to trailer hitches. It's gonna have an 800 pound tongue weight capacity and an 8,000 pound gross towing weight capacity. Now that doesn't mean you can throw 8,000 pounds on here and just take off. You still need to verify what your vehicle can handle. So you're gonna want to get in there and check out the owner's manual and see exactly what you're rated to haul and then you can go with whichever is lower, which is typically gonna be the vehicle and make sure that you're towing safely. Now one of the other concerning things here