If you are the new owner of a Mercedes Benz GLK, have been lent one, or have rented one, you may not yet know all the particulars of this motor vehicle. This is precisely the subject of this short post, we will help you to conduct a simple but important procedure on 3-door cars in order to travel with more than 2 people. That’s why we are going to teach you how to fold a front seat on a Mercedes Benz GLK, for that, first of all, we are going to talk about the different settings of the front seat of your motor vehicle, and, in a second part, the different methods to fold the front seat of a Mercedes Benz GLK..
The different front seat configurations settings of an Mercedes Benz GLK
To start, we’ll commence our short post by detailing the different configurations existing on the front seat of a Mercedes Benz GLK. In reality, 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 packages you will have access to different options, here are a good number of the settings you will find on your Mercedes Benz GLK:
- Basic and crucial adjustment for driving without taking risks, this adjustment of the front seat of your Mercedes Benz GLK permits you to adapt the proximity of the seat to the pedals in order to fit the size of each person’s legs.
- This setting permits you to have a better vision of the road, for small people we often raise the seat and for tall people 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 Mercedes Benz GLK, this setting will enable you, determined by the length of your arms, to have the ideal driving position without tiring to reach the controls
- The lumbar support: On some interior packages, you will in addition 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 Mercedes Benz GLK?
After discovering all the seat adjustments, we will in this part help you to fold down the front seat of your Mercedes Benz GLK. Please be aware that according to 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 Mercedes Benz GLK, or whether you want to fold it down to transport large objects on a 5-door Mercedes Benz GLK, it will not be the same action, here are the different techniques to do it
Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Mercedes Benz GLK.
As we explained to you ahead of, whether it’s to get a traveler in the back seat, or to carry large objects, knowing how to fold the front seat down from its Mercedes Benz GLK is essential. This procedure is quite simple, and depending on the year of your Mercedes Benz GLK the lever to fold down the front seat can be in different spots, here are the 3 possible spots 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
Activating this lever will totally fold down the front seat back of your Mercedes Benz GLK 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 Mercedes Benz GLK
As for folding the front seat of a Mercedes Benz GLK 5-door, the approach 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 on. Folding the front seat of a 5-door Mercedes Benz GLK will generally only be useful if you want to carry bulky stuff. 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 Mercedes Benz GLK, don’t be reluctant to read our short post dedicated to this manipulation.
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