Tow bar fitted to the outback

[Th4neuk]

Just at louth tow bar centre having a tow bar fitted to the outback. Whole back end of the car is off! Wouldn't fancy this as a diy. Thanks for the recomendation gambit :-) the guy who owns it has an impreza and his son has an impreza wagon lol. Mini scooby meet lol.

Price is very good as well.

Cheers

Alan

[Gambit]

No probs mate I did wave when I see you flash your lights ;) 

Tell them to get on the forums ;)  And about the meet next month ;) 

[Shifty]

Did mine myself. Hardest bit was working out how the rear bumber was held on then getting the !Removed! connectors undone.

After that it only took half an hour to bolt everything on and connect the plug and play loom.

[majik_thighs]

How easy is it to remove the rear bumper?

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[Shifty]

Once you work out where the various bolts and plastic rivets are located its a doddle. Took me an hour but now I know how I could do it in ten minutes. The hardest bolts to get to are the ones up under the rear wheel arches behind the plastic splash panels. There are also two bolts (one each side) that are accessible through the round access plugs inside the boot space. Other than that its not a hard job and you only need very basic tools.

[majik_thighs]

Reason for asking, I have an electromagnetic parking sensor kit. The sensor is a strip of tape which sticks to the inside of the bumper. Hence having to remove the bumper.

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[Th4neuk]

My parking sensors have gone awol. Have turned the beeps off tbh

Cheers

Alan

[majik_thighs]

My last ON had them as standard but Subaru must have dropped them on the 05 for some reason. The electromagnetic ones work better and there's no drilling. Just have to take off the bumper.

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[majik_thighs]

At the moment my only parking sensor is the tow - bar.

[david1972]

Think I've got after market rear sensors on mine and don't trust them to be honest...beep when chuff all is behind me [emoji32]

[majik_thighs]

It takes a while to get used to them. Do they beep when you select reverse?

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[david1972]

They seem to just beep when they feel like it. There's a light system mounted in the boot too, green to red, I assume to countdown the distance to objects, but that too seems to have a life of its own

[majik_thighs]

Yes ive seen those, not keen on the lights.....is that in case your deaf?

[david1972]

Hehe probably [emoji15]

[Th4neuk]

Mine has the same ones. I think they are the dealer fitted ones rather than at the actual factory?

Mine did just beep then worked ok but either the towbar is fixing them or something being disturbed has made them sulk. Sdon't really use them anyway so not an issue. If you look there is a little switch on the top and this changes the volume to off/low/high.

Cheers

Alan