Whether you are the new owner of a Ford Transit Connect, 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 carry out a basic but essential step on 3-door cars in order to travel with more than 2 people. That’s why we are going to tell you how to fold a front seat on a Ford Transit Connect, for that, first of all, we are going to talk about the different configuration settings of the front seat of your car, and, in a second part, the different techniques to fold the front seat of a Ford Transit Connect..
The different front seat adjustments of an Ford Transit Connect
First of all, we’ll start our article by presenting the different positioning available on the front seat of a Ford Transit Connect. In reality, even if you want to fold one of your front seats on your motor 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 majority of the settings you can have on your Ford Transit Connect:
- Simple and essential adjustment for driving without taking risks, this adjustment of the front seat of your Ford Transit Connect allows you to adjust the proximity of the seat to the pedals in order to adapt to the size of each person’s legs.
- This setting allows you to have a better perspective of the road, for small 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 confounded with the control to fold the seat of a Ford Transit Connect, this setting will allow you, depending on the length of your arms, to have a perfect driving position without tiring to reach the controls
- The lumbar support: On some interior packages, you will even be able to modify 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 Ford Transit Connect?
After learning about all the seat settings, we will in this part assist you to fold down the front seat of your Ford Transit Connect. Please take note that according to the number of doors on your car the procedure will not be the same. Whether you want to fold down a front seat to fit a passenger on a 3-door Ford Transit Connect, or whether you want to fold it down to carry bulky stuff on a 5-door Ford Transit Connect, it will not be the same approach, here are the different ways to do it
Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Ford Transit Connect.
As we explained to you ahead of, whether it’s to get a passenger in the back seat, or to carry bulky stuff, knowing how to fold the front seat down from its Ford Transit Connect is essential. This technique is quite basic, and according to the year of your Ford Transit Connect 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 commonly in the middle of the backrest
- On the side of the seat in the middle of the seat
Activating this lever will totally fold down the front seat back of your Ford Transit Connect 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 Ford Transit Connect
As for folding the front seat of a Ford Transit Connect 5-door, the process is not similar because since it is not built 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 Ford Transit Connect 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 space and want to fold the rear seat of your Ford Transit Connect, don’t hesitate to consult our article dedicated to this procedure.
If you wish more tutorials on the Ford Transit Connect, go to our Ford Transit Connect category.
