Electrical Fuses - Mercedes-Benz GLS Owner's Manual

Installing the towing eye
Press the mark on cover 1
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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
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bumper when you remove the towing eye.
* NOTE Damage to the vehicle due to
incorrect use of the towing eye or trailer
hitch
When a towing eye or trailer hitch is used to
recover a vehicle, the vehicle may be dam‐
aged in the process.
Only use the towing eye or trailer hitch
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to tow away or tow start the vehicle.
Do not use the towing eye or trailer
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hitch to tow the vehicle during recovery.
inwards and
Tow starting the vehicle (emergency engine
start)
1 engages in the
Vehicles with automatic transmission
* NOTE Damage to the automatic trans‐
The automatic transmission may be damaged
in the process of tow-starting vehicles with
automatic transmission.
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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
If you manipulate or bridge a faulty fuse or if
you replace it with a fuse with a higher
Breakdown assistance 401
mission due to tow-starting
Vehicles with automatic transmission
must not be tow-started.
due to overloaded lines