Towbar, Hitch, Bicycle Carrier

Towbar, hitch, bicycle carrier



























INTRODUCTION
- Read through all of the instructions before starting installation.
- Notifications and warning texts are for your safety and to minimize the risk of something breaking during installation.
- Ensure that all tools stated in the instructions are available before starting installation.
- Certain steps in the instructions are only presented in the form of images. Explanatory text is also given for more complicated steps.
- In the event of any problems with the instructions or the accessory, contact your local Volvo dealer.






Towbar, hitch, bicycle carrier

Assembling and attaching to the car





- Install the bicycle carrier's vertical mounting in the hitch hook's square tube.
- Tighten the mounting using the two screws, spring washers and flat washers.





- Press the plastic protection onto the vertical mounting in the position illustrated.






- Install the bicycle carrier on the vertical mounting using screws, flat washers and lock nuts.
- Tighten the screws and nuts. Do not overtighten so that the bicycle carrier can be tilted in the mounting.






- Remove the locking bracket from the locking pin and pull it out.
- Fold the bicycle carrier up, insert the locking pin through the hole and lock using the locking bracket.





- Secure the two mounting brackets onto the bicycle carrier's lower mounting





- Install a long screw and spacer in the mounting brackets. Install the brackets on the bicycle carrier's square tube in the existing nuts. Adjust the lower bicycle carrier to the desired position and tighten to 10 Nm (7.5 lbf. ft.).

Installing the bicycle





- Always place the heaviest bicycle innermost.





- The carriers on the two tubes can be adjusted to suit different bicycles. Place the bicycles so that every other bicycle is turned the opposite direction.





- Ensure that the mounting straps are properly tightened around the bicycle frames.





- Thread the strap through the mounting eyelet on the bicycle carrier's lower mounting.
- Insert the strap around a suitable location on the bicycle's lower section and then through its own buckle. Tighten securely.
- Tie up the excess of the strap.


Caution! Ensure that all screws, nuts, mounting straps and tensioning straps are properly tightened before traveling with the bicycle carrier. Make regular checks during the journey.

- The bicycle carrier must not be used when driving over terrain.
- Do not transport more than four bicycles at a time on the bicycle carrier.
- The bicycle carrier must not be used to transport tandem bicycles, recumbent bicycles or tricycles.
- Damaged tensioning straps and mounting straps must be replaced with new ones.
- If the car's license plate is concealed by a loaded bicycle carrier, an extra license plate holder with lighting must be used. The license plate holder must be purchased separately.





The bicycle carrier can be folded as illustrated when no bicycles are being transported.
- Detach the locking bracket, pull out the locking pin and fold the bicycle carrier down.
- Insert the locking pin into the hole (1) and lock with the locking bracket.

Securing bicycles with cable locks

Illustration A




- Install the lock cylinder to the cable lock as illustrated in image A.

Illustration B




- Lock the bicycle using the cable lock as illustrated in image B.

Illustration C




- When the cable lock is not in use, it can be locked to the bicycle carrier as illustrated in image C.