Anybody put a trailer hitch on their E63 wagon?
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Anybody put a trailer hitch on their E63 wagon?
I'm thinking about it, just have a small 800 lb boat with a 300 lb trailer. Something 1 1/4 inch and hopefully fairly hidden. I guess I'd have no lack of power for towing. Does install of a hitch effect the warranty, I've still got a couple of years left on that.
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I'm no expert and may be completely wrong but I had in mind that turbo engines were not made to tow. Turbo will akways be under load and could fail... Then again pickup trucks have turbo diesels... Let me know if you do it, I have a small sailboat that I tow with my stepbrothers truck once in a while. Could be sweet to be able to with E!
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I just put a Curt hitch on my wife's X3 since I didn't feel like pay $1900 to get a BMW one!
found this for a 350 wagon
http://www.curtmfg.com/HitchLookup/f...50&style=Wagon
found this for a 350 wagon
http://www.curtmfg.com/HitchLookup/f...50&style=Wagon
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Thanks for posting, it probably would be ok, not sure if I'm going to do it, was thinking about bringing my small sailboat to Fla from up north this winter, I may not end up doing it and just find a boat to buy and keep there, it would be a lot easier than running my boat back on forth to Fla every year.
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I'm no expert and may be completely wrong but I had in mind that turbo engines were not made to tow. Turbo will akways be under load and could fail... Then again pickup trucks have turbo diesels... Let me know if you do it, I have a small sailboat that I tow with my stepbrothers truck once in a while. Could be sweet to be able to with E!
AMG wagon should be a towing beast.
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Way off base on this one. Check out Ford's top selling engine in the F-150. It is an EcoBoost 3.5L twin turbo V6. Same engine used in Explorer and Taurus SHO. The low end torque of a turbo engine is what makes it a great towing vehicle.
AMG wagon should be a towing beast.
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AMG wagon should be a towing beast.
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And your typical 18 wheeler going down the highway is running a turbocharged diesel instead of a supercharger. I just sold my Lingenfelter 427 twin turbo Z06 that was making 855 ft/lbs of torque. Torque is a good thing.
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towing my 1000 lbs should be like nothing for this Wagon, I just don't know if I want a hitch on it, I'll really have to think about this one. I'm really debating whether to bring my small boat to Fla. I certainly would not want to use this car on a regular basis for transporting my boat, vehicles tend to get dings in the bumper and other things happen when taking the boat down the boat launch, etc. Probably not the greatest idea, my old pickup truck is a lot more well suited for this task. I want to try to keep this wagon nice. I guess the new AWD Wagons would be better suited for backing down the slippery cement boat launches, my wagon might just spin it's wide tires and get stuck, that would be depressing.
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I looked into it when I bought mine to attach my Thule T2 bike rack, but the only option was custom fab and likely some rear valence modification. I decided to use roof mounted racks...
By the way, I use my Range Rover to pull the boat!
Good luck, whatever you end up doing.
By the way, I use my Range Rover to pull the boat!
Good luck, whatever you end up doing.
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There is certainly no lack of power for this engine to tow something really heavy. The problem is to find a place to place such a hitch. It's questionable if the structure is designed to be as robust as a truck. An analogy would be if cars like Veyron, McLaren P30, Porsche 918, etc are designed to tow things. Those cars obviously have more than enough hp/tq to pull anything, but I'm not sure if their chasis are designed to handle that kind of stress.
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I looked into it when I bought mine to attach my Thule T2 bike rack, but the only option was custom fab and likely some rear valence modification. I decided to use roof mounted racks...
By the way, I use my Range Rover to pull the boat!
Good luck, whatever you end up doing.
By the way, I use my Range Rover to pull the boat!
Good luck, whatever you end up doing.
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2008 E63 Wagon
I have a 2008 E63 Wagon I used an E350 trailer hitch had to cut a small section of facia, but looks very clean, however the harder problem was the lighting as the brake light bulb is single filament but my mechanic fiddled finding power from the upper brake light in the rear hatch ran is down into the spare tire bay. I have had two trailers the newer one is 5 x 12 feet and I have pulled a couple of thousand pounds a couple of dozen time without any fanfare, the real problem is getting a new hitch on the 2014 I'm about to buy....anyone? I use it for my KUAT bike rack all the time leaving on the car months at a time, http://kuatracks.com/en/products/, great rack mercedes quality and price.
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I my 2012 by a custom hitch place. I didnt need lighting done... I just wanted to put a Thule/Kuat bike rack on the back.
There would have been a number of challenges resulting from the muffler and exhaust routing. The rear valence would also have to be cut quite a bit. The frame is the same between the E350 and the E63 wagons, but the valence and exhaust are not.
I have no opinion about the performance, but at one point put a trailer hitch and towed a trailer with a 1991 GMC Syclone. There was a big "DONT PUT A HITCH ON THIS" sticker in the bed of the truck, ironically. All went well until Lousiana. The expansion joints that go on for miles on i-10 created an absolutely wicked resonance between the engine, the transmission, and the small U-haul moving trailer. THe truck would jerk forward and backwards at any speed over 50mph even with slight throttle. The load would create boost, the boost would make power, then something would cut it and the trailer would bump forward, then backward, then the process would start again.
I have no idea why that driveline was susceptible to that, but I can see where the performance-turbo + trailer = mess rumor came from.
They put the M157 in both ML63 and G63, right? Both of those are approved for towing, I believe.
There would have been a number of challenges resulting from the muffler and exhaust routing. The rear valence would also have to be cut quite a bit. The frame is the same between the E350 and the E63 wagons, but the valence and exhaust are not.
I have no opinion about the performance, but at one point put a trailer hitch and towed a trailer with a 1991 GMC Syclone. There was a big "DONT PUT A HITCH ON THIS" sticker in the bed of the truck, ironically. All went well until Lousiana. The expansion joints that go on for miles on i-10 created an absolutely wicked resonance between the engine, the transmission, and the small U-haul moving trailer. THe truck would jerk forward and backwards at any speed over 50mph even with slight throttle. The load would create boost, the boost would make power, then something would cut it and the trailer would bump forward, then backward, then the process would start again.
I have no idea why that driveline was susceptible to that, but I can see where the performance-turbo + trailer = mess rumor came from.
They put the M157 in both ML63 and G63, right? Both of those are approved for towing, I believe.
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E63 hitch
AMG does not recommend towing , Im told that there is a hitch available in the UK , but have not found it , that being said i had E350 hitch modified to fit my 2010 E63 so i can carry mountain bikes 1/14 " receiver.
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