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Old 05-11-2013, 03:39 PM
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Why doesn't someone just invest some of their time and hard earned money and fabricate one already so I don't have to
Come on folks I want a hitch too so there are at least 2 customers out here to make it worth your while
its in the Large 300d and 300cd parts post and -- wagon and sedan are different? ??? I can bolt it up to a sedan my cd fine with the euro bumper.

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Old 05-11-2013, 03:49 PM
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W123 Wagon Euro Bumper Project


This was my modification for adapting a truly euro hitch to my 5 mph federal bumpers.


And here is what it looks like when I bought it.



It works for me now.
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Old 05-15-2013, 11:12 PM
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W123 Wagon Euro Bumper Project


This was my modification for adapting a truly euro hitch to my 5 mph federal bumpers.


And here is what it looks like when I bought it.



It works for me now.
I'm getting my Euro TD ready for a trip tommorrow and while in my storage-unit took a look at my Euro hitch. It's quite different from the one in the picture. the main crosspiece is a round, approx 2-inch diameter, staight tube with the ends flattened and drilled to fasten to the six bolts. In the center of this tube is welded an approx 1.5 inch thick, forged U-shaped member with an integral ball. I examined the four hitch reinforcing bars that were inside my 'shock-tubes'
and they all have a manufacturer logo that looks like 'ORIS' near a Mercedes star and 123 part number stamped into the steel. So I think mine may be a Mercedes factory hitch.
Unfotunately, there doesn't appaear to be any easy way to use this hitch design with the US bumper-shocks.

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Old 05-16-2013, 08:22 AM
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To add to the hitch/tow-bar confusion...

A 280TE W123 has a different rear mounting to the W123 300TD. (Euro car)

These cars are both the same age and both are W123 wagons. The 300TD exhaust will not fit with the original 280TE tow-hitch brackets in place--the large round diameter of the rear box is blocked by the transverse bar of the hitch where it runs beneath the 'egg-crate' vacuum reservoir, between the chassis rails...

So--two days ago, I had to remove the tow-bar complete to fit the 300TD exhaust to the now converted 280TE into 300TD car

What a PITA!
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Old 05-16-2013, 03:14 PM
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On what I presume to be my factory Euro hitch, no part of the hitch assembly interferes with the exhaust, fuel-tank or vacuum reservoir.
The entire external visible cross-tube basically fits inside the bumper.
The only part that dips below the bumper is the bottom of the U-shaped piece that the ball is welded to. The U then curves upward, placing the ball-height exactly in-line with the Euro bumper.
All the frame reinforcements go inside the cargo-floor and inside the frame-rails. The access holes from the rear valence into the frame rails on my Euro TD appear to be factory too. Though it probably wouldn't be too difficult to cut some holes into a Euro W123 that doesn't have them, in order to use this particular style hitch.

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