Any tips on calibrating the linkage kit?

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these tiny trailers can be pulled by anything (they have 10-12" wheels)

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I donā€™t think you can pull a 43 foot travel trailer with slideouts but it should be good enough for an Imprezaā€™s 1000 or so pounds. Check your owners manual.

https://www.etrailer.com/vehicle-finder.aspx?passmake=Subaru&passmodel=Impreza&hhcat=hitch

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The manual has a big warning before the towing section saying ā€œNot recommended for towingā€, but later it does say that it could handle ~1000 lbs. Iā€™m a little surprised. Itā€™s not exactly a powerful vehicle.

Iā€™ll have to take our 4x9 to a weight station at some point. If I could pull it and a couple of sheets of plywood that would make my life infinitely easier.

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I previously had a Chevy Cruze 1.4, a smaller and less powerful car that your Impreza, and towed with it. It had a 1,000 pound rating, so I would frequently pull trailers up to about 700-800 pounds, in some cases for hundreds of miles. Didnā€™t go crazy with speed or anything, but it always got me there!

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If it looks like you could weigh one wheel at a time on a bathroom scale then you should be good to go. Is the weight on your registration?

Iā€™ve pulled a ton of wood pellets with my 1000# rated Vibe, slow and easy. Those ratings are worst case, uphill on a potholed freeway. Of course, this isnā€™t a recommendation or advised per my attorneys Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe (of Cartalk fame)

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Aww man! You mean I should be street racing AND towing my sheet goods at the same time? :stuck_out_tongue:

Itā€™s a home-made craigslist find, so I donā€™t have any of documentation on it. Good idea with the bathroom scales though! Itā€™s a bit overbuilt for itā€™s size, which is the reason Iā€™m wary of the empty weight. Itā€™s probably fine, Iā€™m guessing it somewhere between 600-800 lbs. Still leaves enough payload capacity for a few sheets of plywood.

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In my case, even if I tried a fit cyclist could probably still have outrun me. :smile:

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Limit it to autocross and you should be OK. Although we did tear a Fiero 4 cyl off itā€™s mounts onceā€¦

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You guys must have been really giving that Fiero a real hot supper! Iā€™d love to have a Fiero project at some point, Those are fun cars :smiley:

I should do some autocross soon! Itā€™s wicked fun and way less dangerous than all the street racing I used to do.