If you are the new owner of a Kia Sportage, have been lent one, or have rented one, you may not yet know all the particulars of this motor vehicle. This is specifically the subject of this short post, we will help you to carry out a simple but useful task on 3-door cars to be able to transport more than 2 passengers. That’s why we are going to show you how to fold a front seat on a Kia Sportage, for that, first of all, we are going to talk about the different adjustments of the front seat of your motor vehicle, and, in a second step, the different methods to fold the front seat of a Kia Sportage..
The different front seat configurations settings of an Kia Sportage
Firstly, we’ll commence our short post by detailing the different adjustments available on the front seat of a Kia Sportage. Indeed, whether or not you want to fold one of your front seats on your vehicle, you should know that based on the model of your car and its packages you will have access to different options, here are the vast majority of the settings you will find on your Kia Sportage:
- Standard and crucial adjustment for driving without taking risks, this configuration settings of the front seat of your Kia Sportage allows you to change the proximity of the seat to the pedals to be able to conform to the size of each person’s legs.
- This setting allows you to have a better vision of the road, for tiny persons we tend to raise the seat and for big persons to lower it.
- Finally, the last “classic” setting is the seat inclination, not to be confounded with the control to fold the seat of a Kia Sportage, this setting will allow you, according to the length of your arms, to have the best driving posture 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 Kia Sportage?
After looking at all the seat settings, we will now help you to fold down the front seat of your Kia Sportage. Please bear in mind that depending on the number of doors on your car the process will not be the same. Whether you want to fold down a front seat to drive a passenger on a 3-door Kia Sportage, or whether you want to fold it down to transport bulky things on a 5-door Kia Sportage, it will not be the same technique, here are the different procedures to do it
Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Kia Sportage.
As we told you earlier, whether it’s to get a person in the back seat, or to carry bulky items, knowing how to fold the front seat down from its Kia Sportage is essential. This technique is quite simple, and according to the year of your Kia Sportage the lever to fold down the front seat can be in different places, here are the 3 possible places for this command:
- At the top of the seat back near the headrest
- On the side of the seat generally 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 Kia Sportage 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 Sportage
As for folding the front seat of a Kia Sportage 5-door, the approach is not the same 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 above. Folding the front seat of a 5-door Kia Sportage will generally only be useful if you want to carry bulky items. 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 Sportage, don’t hesitate to consult our short post dedicated to this action.
In the event that you have any additional questions about the Kia Sportage, do not hesitate to consult our Kia Sportage category.
