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Chapter 4: Climate control
This chapter informs you how to operate
the climate control.
Chapter 5: Audio
This chapter informs you how to operate
your audio system.
Chapter 6: Interior equipment
This chapter informs you how to operate
interior equipment.
Chapter 7: Starting and operating
This chapter informs you how to start and
operate your SUBARU.
Chapter 8: Driving tips
This chapter informs you how to drive your
SUBARU in various conditions and ex-
plains some safety tips on driving.
Chapter 9: In case of emergency
This chapter informs you what to do if you
have a problem while driving, such as a
flat tire or engine overheating.
Chapter 10: Appearance care
This chapter informs you how to keep your
SUBARU looking good.
Chapter 11: Maintenance and service
This chapter informs you when you need
to take your SUBARU to the dealer for
scheduled maintenance and informs you
how to keep your SUBARU running
properly.Chapter 12: Specifications
This chapter informs you about dimen-
sions and capacities of your SUBARU.
Chapter 13: Consumer information and
Reporting safety defects
This chapter informs you about Uniform
tire quality grading standards and Report-
ing safety defects.
Chapter 14: Index
This is an alphabetical listing of all that
’sin
this manual. You can use it to quickly find
something you want to read.
& Safety warnings
You will find a number of WARNINGs,
CAUTIONs and NOTEs in this manual.
These safety warnings alert you to poten-
tial hazards that could result in injury to
you or others.
Please read these safety warnings as well
as all other portions of this manual care-
fully in order to gain a better understand-
ing of how to use your SUBARU vehicle
safely.
WARNING
A WARNING indicates a situation in
which serious injury or death could
result if the warning is ignored.
CAUTION
A CAUTION indicates a situation in
which injury or damage to your
vehicle, or both, could result if the
caution is ignored.
NOTE
A NOTE gives information or sugges-
tions how to make better use of yourvehicle. & Safety symbol
You will find a circle with a slash through it
in this manual. This symbol means “Do
not ”, “Do not do this ”,or “Do not let this
happen ”, depending upon the context.

Table of contents
Seat, seatbelt and SRS airbags1
Keys and doors2
Instruments and controls
Climate control4
Audio5
Interior equipment6
Starting and operating7
Driving tips8
In case of emergency9
Appearance care10
Maintenance and service11
Specifications12
Consumer information and Reporting safety defects13
Index14
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16 &Instrument panel
1) Door locks (page 2-4)
2) Outside mirror switch (page 3-44)
3) Illumination brightness control
(page 3-32)
4) Light control lever (page 3-29)
5) Combination meter (page 3-6)
6) Wiper control lever (page 3-33)
7) Hazard warning flasher switch (page 3-5)
8) Audio (page 5-1)
9) Shift lever (MT) (page 7-13)/ Select lever (AT) (page 7-15)
10) Climate control (page 4-1)
11) Cruise control (page 7-32)
12) Horn (page 3-47)
13) SRS airbag (page 1-33)
14) Tilt/telescopic steering (page 3-47)
15) Hands-free switches (page 5-43)
16) Audio control buttons (page 5-38)
17) Fuse box (page 11-45)
18) Vehicle Dynamics Control OFF switch (page 7-27)
19) Hood lock release knob (page 11-5)
20) Power windows (page 2-20)

WARNING
Do not attach accessories to the
windshield, or fit an extra-wide mir-
ror over the rear view mirror. If the
SRS airbag deploys, those objects
could become projectiles that could
seriously injure vehicle occupants.
! Driver ’s SRS frontal airbag
The driver ’s SRS frontal airbag uses a
dual stage inflator. The inflator operates in
different ways depending on the severity
of impact.
Have the system inspected by your
SUBARU dealer immediately if the SRS
airbag system warning light illuminates. NOTE
The driver
’s SRS side airbag, SRS
curtain airbag and seatbelt preten-
sioner are not controlled by the
SUBARU advanced frontal airbag sys-tem. ! Front passenger ’s SRS frontal air-
bag
The front passenger ’s SRS frontal airbag
uses a dual stage inflator. The inflator
operates in different ways depending on
the severity of impact.
The total load on the seat is monitored by
the occupant detection system ’s weight
sensor located under the seat.
The system has another sensor that
monitors the tension of the front passen-
ger seatbelt. Using the total seat load and
seatbelt tension data from the sensors,
the occupant detection system determines
whether the front passenger ’s SRS frontal
airbag should or should not be inflated.
The occupant detection system may not
inflate the front passenger ’s SRS frontal
airbag even when the driver ’s SRS frontal
airbag deploys. This is normal.
Observe the following precautions. Failure
to do so may prevent the SUBARU
advanced frontal airbag system from
functioning correctly or cause the system
to fail. .
Do not apply any strong impact to the
front passenger ’s seat such as by kicking.
. Do not spill liquid on the front passen-
ger ’s seat. If liquid is spilled, wipe it off
immediately. . Do not remove or disassemble the front
passenger ’s seat.
. Do not install any accessory (such as
an audio amplifier) other than a genuine
SUBARU accessory under the front pas-senger ’s seat.
. Do not place anything (shoes, umbrel-
la, etc.) under the front passenger ’s seat.
. The front passenger ’s seat must not be
used with the head restraint removed. . Do not leave any article including a
child restraint system on the front passen- ger ’s seat or the seatbelt tongue and
buckle engaged when you leave yourvehicle. . Do not place a magnet near the
seatbelt buckle and the seatbelt retractor.. Do not use front seats with their back-
ward-forward position and seatback not
being locked into place securely. If any of
them are not locked securely, adjust them
again. For the adjustment procedure of
the manual seats, refer to “Manual seat ”
F 1-3.
If the seatbelt buckle switch and/or frontpassenger ’s occupant detection system
Seat, seatbelt and SRS airbags
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3-32Instruments and controls
Illumination brightness con- trol
The brightness of clock display, audio, air
conditioner, information display and instru-
ment panel illumination dims when the
light switch is in the “
”or “”
positions. You can adjust brightness of
the instrument panel illumination for better
visibility.
To brighten, turn the control dial upward.
To darken, turn the control dial downward.
NOTE
When the control dial is turned fully
upward, the illumination brightness
becomes the maximum and the auto-
matic dimming function does not work at all.
Front fog light switch (if
equipped)
The front fog lights operate only when the
low beam headlights are illuminated.
However, the front fog lights turn off when
the headlights are switched to high beam.
To turn on the front fog lights, turn the front
fog light switch on the turn signal lever
upward to the“
”position. To turn off the
front fog lights, turn the switch back down
to the “OFF ”position.

Antenna system.................................................. 5-3
Roof antenna ...................................................... 5-3
FM reception ....................................................... 5-3
Installation of accessories .................................. 5-4
Audio set ............................................................. 5-4
Type A audio set (if equipped) ............................. 5-5
Type B audio set (if equipped) ............................. 5-6
Type C audio set (if equipped) ............................. 5-7
Type D audio set (if equipped) ............................. 5-8
Power and audio controls .................................. 5-9
Power switch and volume control ........................ 5-9
Sound controls and audio settings ...................... 5-9
FM/AM radio operation ...................................... 5-13
FM/AM selection ................................................. 5-13
Tuning ............................................................... 5-13
HD Radio
TMTechnology (Digital AM and FM
Radio) (type D audio) ........................................ 5-15
Displaying radio PS (Program Service Name) and RT (Radio Text) ................................................ 5-16
Station preset .................................................... 5-17
Satellite radio operation (if equipped) .............. 5-18
XM
TMsatellite radio (U.S.A. only) ........................ 5-18
Sirius satellite radio ........................................... 5-18
Satellite radio reception ...................................... 5-18
Displaying satellite radio ID of tuner ................... 5-19
Band selection ................................................... 5-20
Channel and category selection .......................... 5-20
Channel preset ................................................... 5-21
Display selection (type A, B and C audio) ........... 5-22
CD player operation ........................................... 5-22
Play file. ............................................................. 5-23 How to insert a CD (type A, C and D)
................. 5-23
How to insert a CD(s) (type B) .. .......................... 5-23
How to play back a CD ...................................... 5-24
To select a track from its beginning. ................... 5-25
Fast-forwarding and fast-reversing ..................... 5-25
Repeating .......................................................... 5-26
Random playback .............................................. 5-26
Scan (type A, B and C audio) ... .......................... 5-27
Display selection (type A, B and C audio) ........... 5-28
Folder selection ................................................. 5-28
How to eject a CD from the player (type A, C and D audio) .............................................................. 5-29
How to eject CDs from the player (type B) ..... ..... 5-29
When the following messages are displayed. . ..... 5-29
Auxiliary input jack (if equipped). ..................... 5-30
Precautions to observe when handling a compact disc ................................................... 5-31
USB storage device / iPod
®operations
(type C and D audio) ...................................... 5-33
Play file ............................................................. 5-33
Connectable USB storage device ....................... 5-33
Connectable iPod
®models ................................. 5-33
Connecting USB storage device / iPod®............. 5-34
How to play back ............................................... 5-35
To select a track/index from its beginning ..... ..... 5-35
To select a chapter from its beginning when connecting iPod
®............................................. 5-35
Fast-forwarding and fast-reversing ..................... 5-35
Repeating .......................................................... 5-36
Random playback .............................................. 5-36 Audio
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AudioSCAN (only when connecting USB storagedevice) ............................................................. 5-37
Selecting category (only when connecting iPod
®) .............................................................. 5-37
Display selection ................................................ 5-37
Folder selection (only when connecting USB storage device) ................................................ 5-37
Setting the playing speed (only when the audiobook is playing) (type D audio) ................. 5-37
When the following messages are displayed . ...... 5-38
Audio control buttons (if equipped) .................. 5-38
MODE button ..................................................... 5-38
“
” and “”buttons ......................................... 5-39
Volume control buttons ...................................... 5-40
MUTE button (models without Hands-free system) ............................................................ 5-41 Bluetooth
®audio (type C and D audio)
............ 5-41
Media format ..................................................... 5-41
Setting Bluetooth
®audio .................................... 5-41
Bluetooth®audio operation ................................ 5-42
Hands-free system (if equipped) ...................... 5-43
Tips for the Hands-free system .......................... 5-43
Certification for the Hands-free system ............... 5-44
Safety precautions ............................................. 5-45
Using the Hands-free system ............................. 5-46
Bluetooth
®setting ............................................. 5-54
Screensaver (type D audio) .............................. 5-56
Downloading picture .......................................... 5-56
Selecting picture ................................................ 5-56
Erasing picture .................................................. 5-57

Antenna system &Roof antenna
CAUTION
. Be sure to lower the antenna rod
before entering garages, parking
towers and other locations with
low ceilings.
. Remove the antenna rod before
washing your car at a car wash. If
the antenna rod is left attached, it
may scratch the roof.
. When reinstalling the removed
antenna rod, be sure to fully
tighten it.
1) Unscrew
2) Remove
The roof antenna is installed in the center
at the rear part of the roof.
It is possible to remove the antenna rod by
unscrewing it from its base. &
FM reception
Although FM is normally static free,
reception can be affected by the surround-
ing area, atmospheric conditions, station
strength and transmitter distance. Build-
ings or other obstructions may cause
momentary static, flutter or station inter-
ference. If reception continues to be
unsatisfactory, switch to a stronger station. Audio
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