PDA

View Full Version : Towing points on an Outback?



gwoiler
01-09-2007, 10:24 AM
Hi. My daughter recently got a 1996 Outback wagon. I work away from home during the week. This morning she got stuck for the third time on a sheet of ice. No traction. No studs. My wife has to pull her with our plow truck that is chained up all the way around. The wife wants to know how to put tow hooks on the subaru to make it easier to pull or pull with. I have not yet been able to look underneeth... but are there towing points front and rear? There could be something there and my wife could never see it! Is there a good way to install something if not there? My Volvo 850 wagon has a nice concealed towing point front and rear. Never had to use it. Thanks to whoever answers.

glenn

gil_ong81
01-09-2007, 11:24 AM
there should be a "loop" under both front and rear bumpers.

Wiscon_Mark
01-09-2007, 01:02 PM
there should be a "loop" under both front and rear bumpers.

These are the tow hooks. They already exist on the Subarus.

Actually two on both the front & the back.

gwoiler
01-09-2007, 02:58 PM
Thanks. The way my wife and daughter described it, I did not thinkthere was anything there. But then... I should expect as much! :roll: I am sure I will get under there this weekend and point out to them where to hook up to and they will feel stupid. :| I kind of figured that the Outback should have had something to hook up to.

gil_ong81
01-09-2007, 03:02 PM
paint them day-glo orange and slap on some fluorescent orange stickers in the shape of arrow on the bumpers directly above them.

Huffer
01-09-2007, 04:03 PM
Race stickers YO!

rougeben83
01-09-2007, 06:22 PM
They should look like big tabs with a hole; one should be to the left of the muffler if you're looking at it from the back. Should give you a better idea what to look for the other 3 after seeing it.

scottzg
01-09-2007, 09:00 PM
i thought those were for tying kayaks to! :grin:

mranlet
01-14-2007, 10:41 PM
Just make it nice and prominent. Like mine:
https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2006/10/P1011563JPG-1.jpg

;)

gil_ong81
01-14-2007, 10:43 PM
showoff!!!!!