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Speaker 1: Today on our 2018 Subaru Forester we're going to be taking a look at and showing you how to install the Roadmaster 12-Volt Outlet Kit, part number RM-9332.So, here's what our 12-Volt Outlet Kit looks like once we have it installed. This is going to be a dedicated circuit so it's going to give us a 12-Volt socket with power even when the ignition source is turned off. Now a lot of vehicles do come with a 12-Volt outlet just like ours does, but with the ignition turned off we're not going to have any power going to it. As you can see there's no lights on my phone charger here.The Roadmaster circuit it's going to be constantly powered so we're going to get power even when the car's off. Now there is going to be a lot of different reasons for having power going to an outlet at all times. In our case, we're going to be using our Forester to flat-tow behind our motorhome so our braking system is going to tap right into here, so we need that power even when our car is off.That's not the only thing it can be used for.

It can also be used for a replacement outlet or even if you have an old one that's corroded or anything, you can bypass the old one and put this one in. Or if you have an outlet that doesn't have sufficient amperage rating, this one is going to have a 20 AMP fuse. It does come with a fuse holder and included fuse and about five feet length of wire to get everything hooked up.Now, the nice thing about where we mounted ours right here in the fuse panel is we can actually just tuck it away and it won't be protruding out when we're not using it. So, now that we've seen what it looks like and gone over some of the features, let's show you how to get it installed.To being our installation we're going to find a power source for a 12-Volt outlet. Now in our kit they do provide us with a fuse holder and a spade terminal, as well as the ground wire.

Now, our spade terminal we're going to be using a fuse tap to tap into some power, but you want to make sure that the power is constantly on so we're going to need to find our fuse panel and start testing some of our fuses.All the way to the left side, just left of the steering wheel on the driver's seat we're going to have this compartment right here right above our hood release. Now, if we lower it down we can actually pull this cover off and this is going to be where our fuses are right on the inside. We have to go through and we'll be checking for a fuse that has constant power. Some of these fuses are going to have power but you want to keep in mind, say, this one right here this 15 AMP at the top, we don't want to use a fuse that's any lower rating than the fuse that's in our kit, so that's going to be a 20 AMP fuse.If we find a 20 AMP fuse we can check that. This one down here is not getting any power.

This one at the top which is going to be fuse number 1 is getting constant power even with the ignition off and the car not running. We're going to need to pull that fuse out and see which side of the fuse is the hot side. I'm just going to be using a pair of needle-nose pliers to pull that fuse out. Just want to be careful not to damage the fuse or the panel. Now we can set the fuse aside for right now and we're going to take our circuit tester and test which side of the fuse is getting power.My light tester won't fit inside the terminal where the fuse is going to go so I've got a multi-meter here and I'm going to be testing each side of the fuse to see which one is getting power.

So the top pin I'm not getting any voltage and if I move my tester to the bottom pin, we can see I'm getting a little over 12-volts, so the bottom side of that fuse is going to be the hot side of the fuse.Now that we've determined which side is the hot side, we're going to take our fuse tap which is going to be this little brass piece here and the fuse that we pulled out of the socket and we're going to be installing the fuse tap onto the fuse. There's a small notch in there that we're going to take our fuse and it's going to slide into one of the terminals. It's going to be a little bit of a tight fit. We're just going to squeeze it on so it goes around the terminal and it hooks onto it like that and we have something we can attach to at the top.The reason why we had to find the hot side of the fuse is because we want to make sure that we put t