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Body Integrated Unit: Removal

WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2013 Subaru Forester. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.
  1. Disconnect the ground cable from battery.
  2. Remove the driver's side instrument panel lower cover. < Refer to REMOVAL , Instrument Panel Lower Cover. >
  3. Remove the bolts, and remove the knee guard panel.
  4. Disconnect the harness connector of body integrated unit.
    CAUTION: Be careful to keep water and other foreign materials away from body integrated unit.
  5. Remove the mounting bolt for the body integrated unit bracket, and remove the body integrated unit.
    Fig 1: Locating Body Integrated Unit Bracket Mounting Bolt
    G05663711Courtesy of SUBARU OF AMERICA, INC.