Coolant drain plug

[lee07]

On a 2005 lgt Is there a easier way to drain the coolant then having to take the entire splash guard off just to drain the coolant(Like the oil filter has a slot) Most other cars have a spot to drain it. Does Subaru have one?

[rao]

There is a drain plug in the radiator, on the passenger (right side).

[lee07]

I know where the drain plug is I want to know if there is a way to drain it without removing the whole under engine cover piece. Just like the oil filter has a spot.

[outahere]

Yes.

From a previous post I made:

.........But I still had to get underneath the car to open the access panel to the oil filter. I put a scrap piece of aluminum roof flashing under the radiator drain to direct the coolant through the open oil filter access panel, into a bucket. I drained 6.5 quarts total of the old coolant (including what was in the overflow tank) using this method. After refilling the radiator and capping it, I squeezed the lower hose a few times to burp the system, filled the turbo tank and capped it, filled the overflow tank, then ran the engine at 2000 rpm, with heater temp at max and heater fan at low speed, until operating temperature was reached. Encountered no problems with trapped air.