etrailer | How to Put On Your Stealth Hitches Hidden Rack Receiver - 2026 Mercedes-Benz GLC

Click for more info and reviews of this Stealth Hitches Trailer Hitch: https://www.etrailer.com/Trailer-Hitc... Check out some similar Trailer Hitch options: https://www.etrailer.com/fitguide.htm Search for other popular Mercedes-Benz GLC parts and accessories: https://www.etrailer.com/vehicle/2026... https://www.etrailer.com Don’t forget to subscribe!    / etrailertv   Full transcript: https://www.etrailer.com/tv-install-s... Hi, this is Scott with etrailer, and today, we're taking a look at and installing our Stealth Hitch on our 2026 Mercedes-Benz GLC. Our Stealth Hitch we have on our GLC today is gonna be an excellent option for people that wanna maintain that factory appearance without having a hitch hanging down all the time. So, say you wanna haul around your bike rack with some bikes on it and maybe a cargo carrier with some extra gear on it. This is gonna be an excellent hitch for you. Now, say you're not using it all the time, so you can just hide away your receiver portion of your hitch itself. When you're not using it, you can just tuck this away. Now, say you wanna put your bike rack on the back, all you're gonna have to do is just pop in your receiver. Go ahead and push that up, and that's gonna click in place. Just give it a nice little push up. Now it's all locked in. Now, say you leave your receiver on once in a while. There's also a key here on the side. You're gonna have a tumbler, and you can actually lock your receiver on so nobody can take that off while you're away from your vehicle. Now, this is gonna have a tow weight rating of 350 pounds, and that's gonna be the weight of your bike racks or your cargo carriers loaded down with all of your gear pushing down on the lower section of the receiver itself. This hitch is gonna have a 5/8 pinhole opening. That's gonna hold in any of your accessories that you put in the back. Now, this won't come with a pin and clip, but keep in mind, you can always pick one up here at etrailer. But a lot of your accessories now, like your bike racks or your cargo carriers, will come with an anti-rattle pin. As far as measurements go for this hitch, from the center of our pinhole out to the edge of our bumper, our pinhole is actually just out past the edge of that, so you shouldn't have any problems with any of your accessories that fold up or stow away making any contact with the back of your vehicle. Now, from the ground to the top inside edge of our receiver, we're looking at right at around 12 1/2 inches. Now, that measurement, you'll be able to decide on if you have any accessories that may need a little bit of lift to those, like a rise in the shank of your bike racks or cargo carriers for clearance. Now, if you have any questions or comments about this hitch for your Mercedes-Benz, you can always leave a question or comment down below in the comment section, or you can get a hold of one of our experts here at etrailer. They'd be glad to help you out. Now, as far as installation goes, this one really isn't too bad. It's definitely something you could handle yourself, but if you don't have the time or the tools or the place to do this one, you can always take a look at our installer locator and get something done for you locally. If it's something you feel like tackling yourself, stick around, watch our video, and we'll help you get it installed. To start our installation, we have our Mercedes-Benz up in the air a little bit. Now, you can do this down on the ground. We have ours up. Just makes it a little bit easier for you to see. So, now underneath of our fascia, we're gonna need to get some hardware removed, and we're gonna have four 10-millimeter bolts that go around our fascia we're gonna remove. (drill whirring) Colleague Yes. In the center of our fascia, we're gonna have this plastic rivet. I'm just gonna get under that with a flathead screwdriver, pull the center down, and we'll just get that pulled outta the way. I did apply some blue painter's tape to the back of our fascia here. That way, we don't have any scratches when we start removing this. So we're gonna be removing this lower portion, so what I wanna do is I'm gonna get behind here with a clip tool and just kinda start working this back. We're just gonna work from the edge and then start our way around. What we wanna do is kinda pull back on it a little bit and get in behind that, and we're just gonna pop that out. (fascia cracking) After we have that started, we're gonna start working our way across, pull with a little pressure, and just start pulling out on our panel. Now, in some places, it may hang up a little bit, so you may need to take a tool and stick it in behind there and just get that to pop out. Now, with an extra set of hands, it makes t