Regardless you are the new owner of a Dodge Nitro, have been lent one, or have leased one, you may not yet know all the details of this motor vehicle. This is precisely the subject of this article, we will help you to execute a basic but useful step on 3-door cars to be able to travel with more than 2 people. That’s why we are going to tell you how to fold a front seat on a Dodge Nitro, 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 step, the different techniques to fold the front seat of a Dodge Nitro..

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The different front seat adjustments of an Dodge Nitro

To begin, we’ll start our article by telling you the different adjustments existing on the front seat of a Dodge Nitro. Indeed, regardless if you want to fold one of your front seats on your motor vehicle, you should know that according to the model of your car and its finish you will have access to different configuration settings, here are most of the settings you can have on your Dodge Nitro:

  • Standard and fundamental adjustment for driving without taking risks, this configuration settings of the front seat of your Dodge Nitro permits you to adapt the proximity of the seat to the pedals to be able to adapt to the size of each person’s legs.
  • This setting permits you to have a better ability to see of the road, for tiny people we typically raise the seat and for tall people 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 Dodge Nitro, this setting will enable you, according to the length of your arms, to have a perfect driving posture without tiring to reach the controls
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  • The lumbar support: On some finish, you will in addition 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 Dodge Nitro?

After learning about all the seat settings, we will in this part assist you to fold down the front seat of your Dodge Nitro. Please bear in mind that depending on the number of doors on your car the procedure will not be the same. Whether you want to fold down a front seat to transport a passenger on a 3-door Dodge Nitro, or whether you want to fold it down to carry bulky things on a 5-door Dodge Nitro, it will not be the same method, here are the different methods to do it

Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Dodge Nitro.

As we explained to you just before, whether it’s to get a person in the back seat, or to carry bulky objects, understanding how to fold the front seat down from its Dodge Nitro is essential. This procedure is quite basic, and according to the year of your Dodge Nitro the lever to fold down the front seat can be in different spots, 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 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 Dodge Nitro 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 Dodge Nitro

As for folding the front seat of a Dodge Nitro 5-door, the procedure is not similar 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 on. Folding the front seat of a 5-door Dodge Nitro will generally only be useful if you want to carry bulky goods. 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 Dodge Nitro, don’t be reluctant to read our article dedicated to this manipulation.

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