No sensor n the Limited. Two drain plugs. Top is fill bottom is drain. Remove the top first. You will nead a cheater or hammer on the Allen wrench.

 

He has a wilderness so that is not relevant info.
Being so new probably not many have changed it yet in a wilderness.. I had no luck with google.

 

It will still have a fill and drain plug-no??

 

Looks like you would want the sensor to be lower than the fill-plug. If you filled to the bottom of the sensor hole, the sensor would be dry most of the time.

 

2022 Forester Wilderness. Just did mine yesterday. 17mm fill plug, 10mm hex drain plug - both on the passenger side of the differential, not the back side. Both [lugs torqued to 35 ft/lbs, .8 qt 75-90 gear oil.

 

nubbins82 My Hybrid is the same with a rear sensor and filling/draining on the right and I wanted to ask you a question. Do those passenger side fill and drain nuts have a washer? Thanks in advance.

 

@CO17Forester the gear oil would come pouring out the fill plug as soon as you started moving. It doesn't take much RPM to get the gear oil climbing all over the place. It won't be "dry", unless it has set for hours.

If you have seen any video of how those aftermarket differential covers impact oil flow in a rear differential, it wouldn't matter much where a sensor was placed if it was monitoring temperature. Gear oil is slung everywhere in very heavy amounts.

It's no different than having a temperature sensor and inch above the oil level in an engine. It's going to get coated with hot oil. It may not be perfect but its still going to work effectively.

It would only matter if the car was not in motion at all. If there is very little movement, it wouldn't need to be monitored...

But once it is up to significant temperature, about everything in the dff is also there. It is a pretty compact piece, so it's not like there is enough distance for major temperature differences.