Perhaps you are the new owner of a Land Rover Freelander, 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 article, we will help you to carry out a basic but essential step on 3-door cars in order to travel with more than 2 persons. That’s why we are going to teach you how to fold a front seat on a Land Rover Freelander, for that, first of all, we are going to compare the different adjustments of the front seat of your car, and, in a second part, the different techniques to fold the front seat of a Land Rover Freelander..
The different front seat adjustments of an Land Rover Freelander
To begin, we’ll start our article by describing the different positioning existing on the front seat of a Land Rover Freelander. In reality, 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 packages you will have have the possibility of using different adjustments, here are most of the settings you can have on your Land Rover Freelander:
- Standard and essential adjustment for driving without taking risks, this adjustment of the front seat of your Land Rover Freelander allows you to adapt the proximity of the seat to the pedals in order to adapt to the size of each person’s legs.
- This setting allows you to have a better perspective of the road, for small people we often raise the seat and for big people to lower it.
- Finally, the last “classic” configuration is the seat inclination, not to be confounded with the control to fold the seat of a Land Rover Freelander, this setting will allow 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 finish, you will also be able to modify the lumbar support provided 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 Land Rover Freelander?
After looking at all the seat settings, we will now assist you to fold down the front seat of your Land Rover Freelander. Please be aware that according to the number of doors on your car the operation will not be the same. Whether you want to fold down a front seat to carry a passenger on a 3-door Land Rover Freelander, or whether you want to fold it down to carry bulky objects on a 5-door Land Rover Freelander, it will not be the same approach, here are the different techniques to do it
Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Land Rover Freelander.
As we advised you before, whether it’s to get a passenger in the back seat, or to carry bulky stuff, knowing how to fold the front seat down from its Land Rover Freelander is essential. This technique is quite basic, and according to the year of your Land Rover Freelander the lever to fold down the front seat can be in different locations, 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 generally 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 Land Rover Freelander 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 Land Rover Freelander
As for folding the front seat of a Land Rover Freelander 5-door, the procedure is not similar 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 Land Rover Freelander 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 volume and want to fold the rear seat of your Land Rover Freelander, don’t be reluctant to consult our article dedicated to this procedure.
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