Regardless you are the new possessor of a Lincoln Continental, have been lent one, or have leased one, you may not yet know all the specs of this car. This is precisely the subject of this short post, we will help you to accomplish a basic but essential procedure on 3-door cars to be able to transport more than 2 persons. That’s why we are going to teach you how to fold a front seat on a Lincoln Continental, for that, first of all, we are going to review the different settings of the front seat of your car, and, in a second part, the different methods to fold the front seat of a Lincoln Continental..

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The different front seat configurations settings of an Lincoln Continental

Firstly, we’ll commence our short post by detailing the different adjustments available on the front seat of a Lincoln Continental. In fact, whether or not you want to fold one of your front seats on your vehicle, you should know that depending on the model of your car and its packages you will have have the possibility of using different options, here are most of the settings you can find on your Lincoln Continental:

  • Simple and fundamental adjustment for driving without taking risks, this adjustment of the front seat of your Lincoln Continental allows you to change the distance of the seat to the pedals to be able to adapt to the size of each person’s legs.
  • This setting allows you to have a better vision of the road, for small persons we often raise the seat and for tall persons to lower it.
  • Finally, the last “classic” setting is the seat inclination, not to be confused with the control to fold the seat of a Lincoln Continental, this setting will enable you, dependent on the length of your arms, to have the ideal driving posture without tiring to reach the controls
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  • The lumbar support: On some series, you will in addition be able to modify the lumbar support given 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 Lincoln Continental?

After learning about all the seat configurations, we will now assist you to fold down the front seat of your Lincoln Continental. 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 drive a passenger on a 3-door Lincoln Continental, or whether you want to fold it down to transport large things on a 5-door Lincoln Continental, it will not be the same procedure, here are the different methods to do it

Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Lincoln Continental.

As we informed you ahead of, whether it’s to get a person in the back seat, or to carry large things, understanding how to fold the front seat down from its Lincoln Continental is useful. This technique is quite basic, and according to the year of your Lincoln Continental 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 commonly 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 Lincoln Continental 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 Lincoln Continental

As for folding the front seat of a Lincoln Continental 5-door, the procedure is not similar because since it is not intended to receive rear passengers through the front doors, your seats don’t have the same features we just talked about earlier. Folding the front seat of a 5-door Lincoln Continental 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 Lincoln Continental, don’t hesitate to read our short post dedicated to this manipulation.

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