Regardless you are the new possessor of a Citroen Xsara, have been lent one, or have rented one, you may not yet know all the details of this car. This is specifically the subject of this article content, we will help you to execute a basic but essential task 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 Citroen Xsara, for that, first of all, we are going to compare the different settings of the front seat of your car, and, in a second part, the different methods to fold the front seat of a Citroen Xsara..
The different front seat configurations settings of an Citroen Xsara
To begin, we’ll commence our article content by explaining the different adjustments available on the front seat of a Citroen Xsara. In fact, even if you want to fold one of your front seats on your vehicle, you should know that depending on the model of your car and its packages you will have have the possibility of using different configuration settings, here are the vast majority of the settings you can have on your Citroen Xsara:
- Simple and crucial adjustment for driving without taking risks, this configuration settings of the front seat of your Citroen Xsara allows you to change the distance of the seat to the pedals in order to conform to the size of each person’s legs.
- This setting allows you to have a better ability to see of the road, for small persons we usually raise the seat and for big persons to lower it.
- Finally, the last “classic” configuration is the seat inclination, not to be confounded with the control to fold the seat of a Citroen Xsara, this setting will enable you, based upon the length of your arms, to have a good driving posture without tiring to reach the controls
- The lumbar support: On some series, you will in addition be able to adjust the lumbar support given 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 Citroen Xsara?
After discovering all the seat configurations, we will in this part help you to fold down the front seat of your Citroen Xsara. Please remember that according to the number of doors on your car the method will not be the same. Whether you want to fold down a front seat to carry a passenger on a 3-door Citroen Xsara, or whether you want to fold it down to deliver bulky objects on a 5-door Citroen Xsara, it will not be the same procedure, here are the different methods to do it
Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Citroen Xsara.
As we informed you before, whether it’s to get a passenger in the back seat, or to carry bulky objects, understanding how to fold the front seat down from its Citroen Xsara is important. This step is quite basic, and depending on the year of your Citroen Xsara the lever to fold down the front seat can be in different spots, here are the 3 possible places 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 totally fold down the front seat back of your Citroen Xsara 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 Citroen Xsara
As for folding the front seat of a Citroen Xsara 5-door, the approach is not the same because since it is not made to receive rear passengers through the front doors, your seats don’t have the same features we just talked about earlier. Folding the front seat of a 5-door Citroen Xsara will generally only be useful if you want to carry bulky things. 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 space and want to fold the rear seat of your Citroen Xsara, don’t be reluctant to consult our article content dedicated to this manipulation.
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