How To Tow A Subaru Outback With Your Class A Motorhome

Here's the trick to towing the Subie - it must be a manual transmission. So that basically puts you into the base model.

But honestly, we love it. We paid 15k cash for the 2010 car with 30k miles on it, and we beat the heck out of it!!! We rubbered all the floors with tray mats that fit perfectly with a lip. And we have no problem loading us, two dogs and all our gear soaking wet from fishing or whatever without feeling bad about it

The rear of the car has a ton of room, something like 56 or 58 cubic feet, plus we use the heck out of the roof too. And with the AWD, we don't mind taking the off the road paths. It's a very utilitarian vehicle that's served us great.

Further, if space is not the big concern in the back, you can also tow the manual Forrester, which I also think is a great car. Taller in the back, not as long - in 2014 they changed the body, more space in the back.

She will only two up to 3000 lbs, and even that might might be pushing her a little, but we don't really tow much anyway.

We use a blue ox tow bar, can't recall the model, but the 6000 lb unit (just in case we swapped to a heavier tow) and we use the M&G Engineering Braking system, which is a unit installed in the DP that taps the air lines and sends air to the master cylinder of the car.

So when we brake, it brakes using pressure from the bus as it's guide to how much. Nothing to put in or take out of the car. We just unhook and fly.

We installed Diodes and a second light in the brake light assembly. So there is a second bulb in there that runs directly off bus power.

The subie ignition and key has an undocumented stop / spot between ACC and LOCK.

We drive the car up, apply parking brake, hook everything up, off with the brake, key to special notch, test that wheel can turn by hurk and jerk method.

Gear in neutral, push car back the hard way (to lock the blue ox and test that the brake is off).

Then one of us goes in, one behind... test blinker right, left, brakes, pull forward a few inches - make sure it rolls, and if I have a room to make a side to side curve, i will to make sure the steering on the car turns, and we're off!

We love Subie, as we call her. When they say "Outback", they really mean it. She's taken us to some great remote spots that a lot of cars might be spooked to go.