Perhaps you are the new owner of a Buick Encore, have been lent one, or have leased one, you may not yet know all the specs of this motor vehicle. This is precisely the subject of this content page, we will help you to execute a basic but essential task on 3-door cars to be able to travel with more than 2 persons. That’s why we are going to teach you how to fold a front seat on a Buick Encore, for that, first of all, we are going to talk about the different configuration settings of the front seat of your motor vehicle, and, in a second part, the different techniques to fold the front seat of a Buick Encore..

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The different front seat configurations settings of an Buick Encore

First of all, we’ll commence our content page by presenting the different configurations available on the front seat of a Buick Encore. Indeed, even if you want to fold one of your front seats on your vehicle, you should know that based on the model of your car and its finish you will have have the possibility of using different options, here are the vast majority of the settings you can have on your Buick Encore:

  • Simple and crucial adjustment for driving without taking risks, this adjustment of the front seat of your Buick Encore enables you to adapt the distance of the seat to the pedals to be able to conform to the size of each person’s legs.
  • This setting enables you to have a better vision of the road, for tiny drivers we tend to raise the seat and for tall drivers to lower it.
  • Finally, the last “classic” configuration is the seat inclination, not to be confused with the control to fold the seat of a Buick Encore, this setting will allow you, dependent on the length of your arms, to have the right driving position without tiring to reach the controls
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  • The lumbar support: On some interior packages, you will also be able to modify the lumbar support provided by your seat by pressing down on the backrest, a very pleasant adjustment for long trips.

How do you fold the front seat down from a Buick Encore?

After identifying all the seat configurations, we will now help you to fold down the front seat of your Buick Encore. Please remember that according to the number of doors on your car the process will not be the same. Whether you want to fold down a front seat to transport a passenger on a 3-door Buick Encore, or whether you want to fold it down to deliver bulky stuff on a 5-door Buick Encore, it will not be the same action, here are the different ways to do it

Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Buick Encore.

As we told you before, 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 Buick Encore is useful. This procedure is quite basic, and depending on the year of your Buick Encore the lever to fold down the front seat can be in different spots, here are the 3 possible spots for this command:

  • At the top of the seat back near the headrest
  • On the side of the seat in most cases in the middle of the backrest
  • On the side of the seat in the middle of the seat

Pressing this lever will totally fold down the front seat back of your Buick Encore 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 Buick Encore

As for folding the front seat of a Buick Encore 5-door, the process is not the same because since it is not built 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 Buick Encore will generally only be useful if you want to carry bulky items. 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 Buick Encore, don’t be reluctant to read our content page dedicated to this action.

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