Battery Drainage Prevention Function - Subaru Forester 2012 Owner's Manual

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Keys and doors
NOTE
If your vehicle is equipped with a
double locking system and it is acti-
vated, the door will not be unlocked
even when you move the door lock
lever forward.
& Battery drainage prevention
function
If a door or the rear gate is not completely
closed, the interior lights will remain
illuminated as a result. However, several
lights are automatically turned off by the
battery drainage prevention function to
prevent the battery from discharging. The
following interior lights are affected by this
function.
Switch Automatically turning
Item
position
Approximately 20
*1
Map lights OFF
minutes later
Approximately 20
Dome light DOOR
minutes later
Ignition Approximately 20
—
switch light minutes later
Door step
—
lights
Cargo area
DOOR
light
*1: The map lights can be controlled by the
battery drainage prevention function only when
the map light switches are in the OFF position
and the door interlock switch is in the DOOR
position. For the switch positions, refer to
Map light" F6-3
"
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*2: The door step lights and the cargo area light
are not affected by the battery drainage
prevention function, so the lights do not turn
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off automatically. To turn off the lights, it is
necessary that each door and the rear gate are
completely closed.
The operational/non-operational setting of
this function can be changed by a
SUBARU dealer. We recommend that
you contact your SUBARU dealer if you
would like to change the setting.
NOTE
off
. For details about the factory setting
(default setting) for this function, refer
"
to Function settings"
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. When leaving the vehicle, please
make sure that all doors and the rear
gate are completely closed.
. For models with the push-button
ignition switch, the battery drainage
*2
None
prevention function does not operate
while the ignition switch is in "Acc" or
*2
None
"ON" position.
. For models without the push-button
.
F27.
ignition switch, the battery drainage
prevention function does not operate
while the key is in the ignition switch.