If you are the new owner of a Kia Xceed, have been lent one, or have leased one, you may not yet know all the main features of this motor vehicle. This is specifically the subject of this article content, we will help you to perform a simple but key procedure 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 Xceed, for that, first of all, we are going to review the different configuration settings of the front seat of your motor vehicle, and, in a second part, the different techniques to fold the front seat of a Kia Xceed..
The different front seat configurations settings of an Kia Xceed
To start, we’ll start our article content by telling you the different adjustments existing on the front seat of a Kia Xceed. In fact, whether or not you want to fold one of your front seats on your car, you should know that depending on the model of your car and its finish you will have access to different adjustments, here are most of the settings you can find on your Kia Xceed:
- Fundamental and essential adjustment for driving without taking risks, this configuration settings of the front seat of your Kia Xceed permits you to change the distance of the seat to the pedals in order to conform to the size of each person’s legs.
- This setting permits you to have a better ability to see of the road, for tiny people we often raise the seat and for tall people 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 Xceed, this setting will enable you, depending on the length of your arms, to have a good driving posture without tiring to reach the controls
- The lumbar support: On some series, you will also be able to change the lumbar support offered 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 Xceed?
After finding out about all the seat settings, we will now help you to fold down the front seat of your Kia Xceed. Please remember 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 carry a passenger on a 3-door Kia Xceed, or whether you want to fold it down to deliver large things on a 5-door Kia Xceed, 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 Xceed.
As we told you ahead of, whether it’s to get a passenger in the back seat, or to carry large things, knowing how to fold the front seat down from its Kia Xceed is useful. This step is quite simple, and depending on the year of your Kia Xceed the lever to fold down the front seat can be in different locations, 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 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 Xceed 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 Xceed
As for folding the front seat of a Kia Xceed 5-door, the procedure 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 functionality we just talked about earlier. Folding the front seat of a 5-door Kia Xceed 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 volume and want to fold the rear seat of your Kia Xceed, don’t hesitate to consult our article content dedicated to this procedure.
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