Electrical Fuses - Mercedes-Benz S-Class Owner's Manual

Installing the towing eye
Press the mark on cover 1 inwards and
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remove.
Screw in the towing eye clockwise as far as it
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will go and tighten.
Vehicles with a trailer hitch: vehicles with a
trailer hitch do not have a rear bracket for the
towing eye. Fasten the tow bar to the trailer
hitch.
% Make sure that cover 1 engages in the
bumper when you remove the towing eye.
* NOTE Damage due to incorrect use of
the towing eye
When a towing eye is used to recover a vehi‐
cle, the vehicle may be damaged in the proc‐
ess.
Only use the towing eye to tow away or
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tow start the vehicle.
Tow-starting the vehicle (emergency engine
start)
* NOTE Damage to the automatic trans‐
mission due to tow-starting
The automatic transmission may be damaged
in the process of tow-starting vehicles with
automatic transmission.
Breakdown assistance 499
Vehicles with automatic transmission
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must not be tow-started.
Vehicles with automatic transmission must
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not be tow-started.

Electrical fuses

Notes on electrical fuses
& WARNING Risk of accident and injury
due to overloaded lines
If you manipulate or bridge a faulty fuse or if
you replace it with a fuse with a higher
amperage, the electric line could be overloa‐
ded.
This could result in a fire.
Always replace faulty fuses with speci‐
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fied new fuses containing the correct
amperage.