Whether you are the new owner of a Kia Picanto 3, have been lent one, or have rented one, you may not yet know all the particulars of this car. This is specifically the subject of this content page, we will help you to accomplish a simple but important procedure on 3-door cars to be able to travel with more than 2 passengers. That’s why we are going to teach you how to fold a front seat on a Kia Picanto 3, for that, first of all, we are going to review the different configuration settings of the front seat of your car, and, in a second step, the different techniques to fold the front seat of a Kia Picanto 3..
The different front seat configurations settings of an Kia Picanto 3
To start, we’ll start our content page by explaining the different settings existing on the front seat of a Kia Picanto 3. 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 packages you will have access to different configuration settings, here are the vast majority of the settings you will find on your Kia Picanto 3:
- Basic and crucial adjustment for driving without taking risks, this adjustment of the front seat of your Kia Picanto 3 enables you to modify 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 ability to see of the road, for small people we usually bring up the seat and for big people 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 Kia Picanto 3, this setting will allow you, depending on the length of your arms, to have the right driving posture without tiring to reach the controls
- The lumbar support: On some finish, 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 Kia Picanto 3?
After finding out about all the seat settings, we will in this part assist you to fold down the front seat of your Kia Picanto 3. Please take note that depending on the number of doors on your car the operation will not be the same. Whether you want to fold down a front seat to drive a passenger on a 3-door Kia Picanto 3, or whether you want to fold it down to transport large stuff on a 5-door Kia Picanto 3, it will not be the same procedure, here are the different methods to do it
Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Kia Picanto 3.
As we advised you before, whether it’s to get a person in the back seat, or to carry large objects, understanding how to fold the front seat down from its Kia Picanto 3 is useful. This step is quite simple, and according to the year of your Kia Picanto 3 the lever to fold down the front seat can be in different places, 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 almost always in the middle of the backrest
- On the side of the seat in the middle of the seat
Pushing this lever will totally fold down the front seat back of your Kia Picanto 3 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 Picanto 3
As for folding the front seat of a Kia Picanto 3 5-door, the process is not similar because since it is not intended to receive rear passengers through the front doors, your seats don’t have the same functionality we just talked about above. Folding the front seat of a 5-door Kia Picanto 3 will generally only be useful if you want to carry bulky objects. 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 Kia Picanto 3, don’t hesitate to consult our content page dedicated to this manipulation.
If you wish more guides on the Kia Picanto 3, go to our Kia Picanto 3 category.
