Whether you are the new owner of a Kia Optima, have been lent one, or have leased one, you may not yet know all the main features of this car. This is specifically the subject of this content page, we will help you to conduct a basic but essential step on 3-door cars to be able to travel with more than 2 people. That’s why we are going to explain you how to fold a front seat on a Kia Optima, for that, first of all, we are going to compare 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 Kia Optima..
The different front seat adjustments of an Kia Optima
To begin, we’ll start our content page by detailing the different configurations available on the front seat of a Kia Optima. In reality, 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 settings, here are a good number of the settings you will find on your Kia Optima:
- Fundamental and fundamental adjustment for driving without taking risks, this configuration settings of the front seat of your Kia Optima enables you to adjust 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 persons we often raise the seat and for big persons to lower it.
- Finally, the last “classic” configuration is the seat inclination, not to be mislead with the control to fold the seat of a Kia Optima, this setting will enable you, determined by the length of your arms, to have the right driving position without tiring to reach the controls
- The lumbar support: On some series, you will in addition be able to change 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 Kia Optima?
After identifying all the seat configurations, we will in this part assist you to fold down the front seat of your Kia Optima. Please be aware that subject 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 transport a passenger on a 3-door Kia Optima, or whether you want to fold it down to carry large stuff on a 5-door Kia Optima, it will not be the same process, here are the different procedures to do it
Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Kia Optima.
As we explained to you just before, whether it’s to get a traveler in the back seat, or to carry large products, understanding how to fold the front seat down from its Kia Optima is useful. This step is quite basic, and depending on the year of your Kia Optima 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 general in the middle of the backrest
- On the side of the seat in the middle of the seat
Activating this lever will completely fold down the front seat back of your Kia Optima 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 Kia Optima
As for folding the front seat of a Kia Optima 5-door, the process 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 Kia Optima 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 Kia Optima, don’t be reluctant to read our content page dedicated to this procedure.
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