RC Pilot

Yep, that would do it!

Unless the front and rear diff ratios are different, it should not matter that the reas is an LS unit.

My trailer, small boat, has LEDS. If I pull the interior panel and do not find the XV plug tucked away I will probably just put her back on the lift and sort out the routing for the wire. If it does have the plug, I will just order an XV trailer harness.

Might pull the interior panels off and see if the wiring harness as the trailer connector tucked away. Reason being, got my hand on a factory wiring diagram it seems to indicate the harness is the same on the Impreza and the XV. If that is the case, I should be able to order the XV trailer harness and all will be well.

I am betting that the initial issue was a a cam out of time. For the shifting issue, is there any mechanical ( tv cable ) from the throttle linkage to the trans? If so, it probably needs adjusted. If, looking into the TPS sensor as CH001 stated.

I find it depends on throttle position. Granted, I have only had mine for around two weeks but if I am light on the throttle it does seem sluggish. I have also found that when I need to do things like merge into moving traffic, slapping it in manual gives me the kind of pickup I am used to.

The trailer harness is after market. The powered converter is not a brake module. Its maker says it is powered to keep from overloading the vehicle wiring harness. Just looking for how someone has run the power wire. Sadly, no rear power outlet to tap into.

Picked up a 13 Impreza about a week and a half ago. Ordered a hitch and wiring harness for it. The wiring harness requires a power wire be run to the battery. My question is this; is the stock wiring so bad it cannot handle the addition of a couple trailer lights? If one of you have installed a power trailer harness, where did you run the wire? There seems to be no good way to run it underneath without much of it being exposed and I do not really want to drill a hole in the body to rin it inside. I tried to ask this wiring harness issue of Subaru America and the only answer I can get from the useless people in their customer service department is that they do not recommend towing anything with the Impreza. The warning not to tow with the Impreza turns out to be in the XV section of the manual which I did not look at prior to purchase as it is not an XV. They are at a total loss when I inform them that the same vehicle is rated to tow 2400lbs in some other countries and just start repeating the do not tow BS.