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Installing procedure
- Position the car on the garage jack’s arms.
- Dismount the tail lamps and the boot’s padding.
- Dismount the rear bumper ( and plastic mudguards if present).
- Dismount the crossbeam of the rear bumper.
- Dismount the stepney holder.
Cutting an opening in the back bumper:
- Dismounted back bumper is placed on a soft pad .
- Measure and score the center of the bumper on the bottom side.
- Cut out a paper template enclosed in the manual.
- Place the paper template on the internal side of the bumper as drawn on the template and
mark the shape.
- Cut out an opening for the towbar and plugbox holder in the bumper by a suitable tool
(beware of scratching the outer surface)
and clean the edge of the hole.
-Put off the prepared bumper on a suitable place.
Mounting the equipment onto the car :
-Take out the blinds from the pre-bored holes in the sills on both sides of the car
underbody. If necessary, clean the interior of the holes from the deposits of plastic
protection.
- Screw up the side arms Left (3) + Right (2) with four bolts M10 x 80 (12), spacers (13),
washers (15+16) and nuts M10 (14) onto the underbody.
- Screw up the beam (1) to the side arms (3+2) with four bolts M10 x 30 (17), washers (16)
and nuts M10 (14). To the rear wall screw up the beam (1) with two bolts M8 x 25 (8),
washers (10+11) and nuts M8 (9).
- Tighten the bolts M10 by torque 65 Nm, the bolts M8 by torque 35 Nm.
Mounting the towarm
- The towarm (4) is fixed by the bolts M12 x 65 (5), washers
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13 (7) and nuts M12 (6)
between the brackets of the coupling device.
- Fasten the plugbox holder (18) onto the left holder of the towarm under the nut (6) (more
closely to the ball pivot).
- Put the bolts into the holes so that their heads remain on the right bracket (if looking
ahead);
- Tighten the bolts by the prescribed torque : 80 Nm.-
- Further step is the installation of electric wiring.
- After installing the cable harness remount back all dismantled parts and tighten the
appropriate joints by the respective torques.
- Put a self-adhesive sticker “
70 kg
” on the back bumper- above the towarm (clean and
degrease the appropriate place for the sticker).
- Place a lid onto the ball pivot of the towarm (19).
