Perhaps you are the new owner of a Kia Picanto, have been lent one, or have leased one, you may not yet know all the main features of this car. This is precisely the subject of this short post, we will help you to accomplish a simple but essential task on 3-door cars in order to transport more than 2 persons. That’s why we are going to teach you how to fold a front seat on a Kia Picanto, for that, first of all, we are going to talk about the different adjustments of the front seat of your car, and, in a second part, the different ways to fold the front seat of a Kia Picanto..

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The different front seat configurations settings of an Kia Picanto

To begin, we’ll start our short post by explaining the different settings available on the front seat of a Kia Picanto. Indeed, whether or not you want to fold one of your front seats on your 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 the vast majority of the settings you will find on your Kia Picanto:

  • Simple and essential adjustment for driving without taking risks, this configuration settings of the front seat of your Kia Picanto allows you to modify the proximity of the seat to the pedals in order to fit 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 typically raise the seat and for big persons 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, this setting will enable you, according to the length of your arms, to have an ideal driving position without tiring to reach the controls
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  • The lumbar support: On some interior packages, you will also be able to modify the lumbar support offered 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 Kia Picanto?

After discovering all the seat configurations, we will now help you to fold down the front seat of your Kia Picanto. Please remember that depending on 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 Picanto, or whether you want to fold it down to deliver bulky things on a 5-door Kia Picanto, it will not be the same method, here are the different ways to do it

Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Kia Picanto.

As we explained to you just before, whether it’s to get a traveler in the back seat, or to carry bulky items, knowing how to fold the front seat down from its Kia Picanto is important. This procedure is quite simple, and according to the year of your Kia Picanto 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 usually in the middle of the backrest
  • On the side of the seat in the middle of the seat

Pressing this lever will completely fold down the front seat back of your Kia Picanto 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

As for folding the front seat of a Kia Picanto 5-door, the process is not similar because since it is not designed to receive rear passengers through the front doors, your seats don’t have the same features we just talked about above. Folding the front seat of a 5-door Kia Picanto 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 volume and want to fold the rear seat of your Kia Picanto, don’t hesitate to consult our short post dedicated to this procedure.

If you need more tutorials on the Kia Picanto, go to our Kia Picanto category.