Mercedes-Benz GLC : Tow starting or towing away / Installing the towing eye

Press the mark on cover
inwards and
remove.
Screw in the towing eye
clockwise as far as it
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
engages in the
bumper when you remove the towing eye.
NOTE Damage to the vehicle due to
incorrect use of the towing eye
When a towing eye is used to recover a vehicle,
the vehicle may be damaged in the process.
Only use the towing eye
to tow away or
tow start the vehicle.
Vehicles with automatic transmission
NOTE Damage to the automatic transmission
due to tow starting
The automatic transmission may be damaged
in the process of tow starting vehicles with
automatic transmission...
Other information:
Requirements:
The electric parking brake is released.
ESP® is activated and is not intervening.
The transmission is in position
.
The driver's door is closed.
Check of the radar sensor system has been
successfully completed.
Parking Assist PARKTRONIC is not being
used to park the vehicle or to exit from a
parking space...
WARNING Risk of accident and injury
caused by an insufficiently secured vehicle
rolling away
If the vehicle is not securely parked sufficiently,
it can roll away in an uncontrolled
way even at a slight downhill gradient.
On uphill or downhill
gradients, turn the
front wheels so that the vehicle rolls
towards the curb if it starts moving...