Perhaps you are the new owner of a Alfa Romeo 156, have been lent one, or have leased one, you may not yet know all the particulars of this car. This is exactly the subject of this article, we will help you to execute a simple but useful procedure on 3-door cars in order to travel with more than 2 people. That’s why we are going to teach you how to fold a front seat on a Alfa Romeo 156, for that, first of all, we are going to take a look at the different configuration settings of the front seat of your car, and, in a second part, the different ways to fold the front seat of a Alfa Romeo 156..
The different front seat configurations settings of an Alfa Romeo 156
First of all, we’ll commence our article by describing the different adjustments available on the front seat of a Alfa Romeo 156. In reality, regardless if you want to fold one of your front seats on your car, you should know that based on the model of your car and its packages you will have access to different configuration settings, here are most of the settings you can find on your Alfa Romeo 156:
- Simple and fundamental adjustment for driving without taking risks, this adjustment of the front seat of your Alfa Romeo 156 permits you to modify the distance of the seat to the pedals in order to conform to the size of each person’s legs.
- This setting permits you to have a better vision of the road, for small drivers we often bring up the seat and for tall drivers to lower it.
- Finally, the last “classic” setting is the seat inclination, not to be confused with the control to fold the seat of a Alfa Romeo 156, this setting will allow you, dependent on the length of your arms, to have a good driving position without tiring to reach the controls
- The lumbar support: On some interior packages, you will in addition be able to change the lumbar support provided by your seat by pressing down on the backrest, a very pleasant adjustment for long trips.
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How do you fold the front seat down from a Alfa Romeo 156?
After discovering all the seat settings, we will now assist you to fold down the front seat of your Alfa Romeo 156. Please bear in mind that depending on the number of doors on your car the operation will not be the same. Whether you want to fold down a front seat to transport a passenger on a 3-door Alfa Romeo 156, or whether you want to fold it down to carry bulky things on a 5-door Alfa Romeo 156, it will not be the same process, here are the different techniques to do it
Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Alfa Romeo 156.
As we explained to you earlier, whether it’s to get a traveler in the back seat, or to carry bulky stuff, knowing how to fold the front seat down from its Alfa Romeo 156 is useful. This procedure is quite simple, and depending on the year of your Alfa Romeo 156 the lever to fold down the front seat can be in different locations, here are the 3 possible locations for this command:
- At the top of the seat back near the headrest
- On the side of the seat in general in the middle of the backrest
- On the side of the seat in the middle of the seat
Pressing this lever will completely fold down the front seat back of your Alfa Romeo 156 and free the seat from its location on the rail that allows you to move the seat forward or backward, this will allow you to save even more space for an easy passenger in the rear.
Folding down the front seat of a 5-door Alfa Romeo 156
As for folding the front seat of a Alfa Romeo 156 5-door, the technique is not the same because since it is not designed to receive rear passengers through the front doors, your seats don’t have the same functionality we just talked about earlier on. Folding the front seat of a 5-door Alfa Romeo 156 will generally only be useful if you want to carry bulky stuff. To do this, you’ll need to use the recline control to fold your seats. Depending on the year of your car, it can be in the form of a knob to turn, or a lever to operate to choose the inclination of your car. If you don’t have enough volume and want to fold the rear seat of your Alfa Romeo 156, don’t be reluctant to read our article dedicated to this action.
If you have any further questions about the Alfa Romeo 156, do not hesitate to consult our Alfa Romeo 156 category.
