The 05 has a plate that pops off for the hitch. This one I have doesn’t have the hitch but has the plate. The replacement I saw has the plate too. Adding a hitch might need a slight mod with a dremel to allow for clearance of the aftermarket hitches.
--FT Sent from iPhone > On Jan 3, 2020, at 1:35 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Looks like there are a similar number of variants for the rear bumper, > mostly between with/without a ‘removable trailer coupling” and Parktronic. > > Stuff like this I always have my dealer guy/gal confirm because of all the > variations, but if it doesn’t have a trailer hitch, I would guess it’s a 163 > 880 69 71. That’s the basic rear bumper. With the trailer hitch cover it’s a > 163 880 70 71. > > Pretty much the same part across all W163 models through at least 2003 from > what I can see. > > -D > > > >> On Jan 3, 2020, at 1:26 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> wrote: >> >> So which back bumper cover does this thing need, and what are the potential >> donor cars? >> http://mb-teilekatalog.info/view_DatacardAction.php?lang=E&vin=4jgab75e54a462478 >> >>>> On January 3, 2020 at 1:20 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes >>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> So it looks like there are eight variations of the front bumper face bar, >>> as the EPC calls it. >>> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
