Hello,

I have a 1993 300D 2.5 turbo sedan and I'd like to tow a load of about 1200 lbs. Is there a trailer hitch that is available for this car? Thanks in advance.

Call Extreme Hitch, Wall NJ.

www.extremehitch.com

1915 Atlantic Ave.
Manasquan, NJ 08736
(732) 528-1501

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1987 300TD 440K - My car
2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo 107K - Tim's car
2000 - CLK320 100K - Deb's car
1994 C230 150K - Josh's Car

Funny you say this. I just installed one on my 93 300D last week. Get this one, the fit and finish is phenominal, and it hidden quite nicely...

http://www.trailerhitches.com/trailer-hitches/curt11816class1hitch.cfm

its a little different than whats in the pic. You only see about 12 inches of the bar i would say, basically only the receiver is what you see, and fits nicely in the factory cutout in the rear facia.

Took me about an hour to install.

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93 300D 2.5 Turbo, Black/Palomino 273K
09 E350 Black/Black 41K

I bought a Curt hitch for '95 wagon from JC Whitney. JC sells a hitch for your 300D. I checked around before buying and JC had the best price by far.

Mine is also a Curt. Be sure to get a powered invertor trailer wiring harness, because of the exterior lamp failure indicator on these cars.

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93 300D 2.5 Turbo, Black/Palomino 273K
09 E350 Black/Black 41K

Why not OEM?

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1995 E420 Schwarz
1995 E300 Weiss
#1987 300D Sturmmachine
#1991 300D Nearly Perfect
#1994 E320 Cabriolet
#1995 E320 Touring
#1985 300D Sedan
OBK #42

Don't they have non-standard (metric) ball sizes? Also, where can you buy one?

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John Robbins
'05 E320 CDI - 240k
'87 300TD - 318k

You mean 1.98" vs 2"? Your trailer won't notice the difference. Start with the dealer and see what they say. The link above may have some useful info as well.

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1995 E420 Schwarz
1995 E300 Weiss
#1987 300D Sturmmachine
#1991 300D Nearly Perfect
#1994 E320 Cabriolet
#1995 E320 Touring
#1985 300D Sedan
OBK #42

Good luck. I tried the dealer. They only carry them for the ML series. The Curt is very OEM like, you wont be disappointed. Ive attached a pic of mine...

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93 300D 2.5 Turbo, Black/Palomino 273K
09 E350 Black/Black 41K

http://www.etrailer.com/hitch-1993_Mercedes-Benz_300E.htm


It's listed as "300E" but I got one and it works on my D.

Fast shipping at this place, too.

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1987 300D (230,000 mi on a #14 head-watching the temp gauge and keeping the ghost in the machine)
Raleigh NC - Home of deep fried sushi!

Fair enough! If I ever come across a used one I'll have to grab it.

Nice! I wonder if that would work on a wagon!?

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John Robbins
'05 E320 CDI - 240k
'87 300TD - 318k

http://search.ebay.de/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=w124+Anh%C3%A4ngerkupplung

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1995 E420 Schwarz
1995 E300 Weiss
#1987 300D Sturmmachine
#1991 300D Nearly Perfect
#1994 E320 Cabriolet
#1995 E320 Touring
#1985 300D Sedan
OBK #42

Looks almost exactly like the aftermarket ones, but the aftermarket ones have a receiver, which has some benefits of its own (bike racks). Although even with shipping that one might come out cheaper... the dollar sure doesn't help much though.

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John Robbins
'05 E320 CDI - 240k
'87 300TD - 318k