When You Do Not Tow A Trailer - Subaru 2006 Forester Owner's Manual

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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.
Do not connect safety chains to part
of the vehicle other than the safety
chain hooks.
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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

Remove the ball mount from the hitch
receiver tube and insert the receiver cover
onto the hitch receiver tube.
Place the dust cap over the fou-pin con-
nector of the hitch wire harness to protect
against possible damage.
Occasionally lubricate terminals of the
four-pin connector using terminal grease.
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