2006 Subaru Forester Owner's Manual - Page 242

Driving tips

8-17

1)

Hitch ball installation point

2)

Hooks for safety chains

5.

Use only a hitch ball that is appropriate

for the ball mount and your trailer. The

hitch ball must be securely installed on the

ball mount.

6.

Connect your trailer to the hitch ball.

7. Connect the trailer and the hitch with

safety chains that will hold the trailer’s

maximum gross weight. The chains

should cross under the trailer tongue to

prevent the tongue from dropping onto the

ground in case it should disconnect from

the hitch ball. Allow sufficient slack in the

chains taking tight-turn situations into ac-

count; however, be careful not to let them

drag on the ground.

Hitch harness connector

8.

Connect the hitch wire harness’s black

four-pin wire connector to the towing trail-

er’s wire harness

9. Confirm proper function of the hitch

wire harness by individually activating the

brake, right turn signal, left turn signal,

stop, and parking lights on the trailer.

NOTE

Always disconnect the trailer wire har-

ness before launching or retrieving a

watercraft.

¡

When you do not tow a trailer

y

Remove the ball mount from the hitch

receiver tube and insert the receiver cover

onto the hitch receiver tube.

y

Place the dust cap over the fou-pin con-

nector of the hitch wire harness to protect

against possible damage.

y

Occasionally lubricate terminals of the

four-pin connector using terminal grease.

1

2

800228

Do not connect safety chains to part

of the vehicle other than the safety

chain hooks.

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