Whether you are the new possessor of a Mercury Mariner, have been lent one, or have leased one, you may not yet know all the particulars of this car. This is exactly the subject of this article, we will help you to accomplish a common but essential step on 3-door cars in order to travel with more than 2 persons. That’s why we are going to explain you how to fold a front seat on a Mercury Mariner, for that, first of all, we are going to review the different adjustments of the front seat of your car, and, in a second step, the different techniques to fold the front seat of a Mercury Mariner..

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The different front seat configurations settings of an Mercury Mariner

Firstly, we’ll commence our article by presenting the different positioning available on the front seat of a Mercury Mariner. Indeed, whether or not you want to fold one of your front seats on your motor vehicle, you should know that based on the model of your car and its finish you will have access to different configuration settings, here are a good number of the settings you can find on your Mercury Mariner:

  • Basic and fundamental adjustment for driving without taking risks, this configuration settings of the front seat of your Mercury Mariner enables you to change the proximity of the seat to the pedals in order to adapt to the size of each person’s legs.
  • This setting enables you to have a better ability to see of the road, for tiny people we typically raise the seat and for big people to lower it.
  • Finally, the last “classic” setting is the seat inclination, not to be mislead with the control to fold the seat of a Mercury Mariner, this setting will allow you, determined by the length of your arms, to have an ideal driving posture without tiring to reach the controls
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  • The lumbar support: On some finish, you will even be able to modify the lumbar support provided 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 Mercury Mariner?

After discovering all the seat configurations, we will now help you to fold down the front seat of your Mercury Mariner. 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 fit a passenger on a 3-door Mercury Mariner, or whether you want to fold it down to carry bulky items on a 5-door Mercury Mariner, it will not be the same process, here are the different techniques to do it

Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Mercury Mariner.

As we explained to 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 Mercury Mariner is important. This procedure is quite common, and depending on the year of your Mercury Mariner the lever to fold down the front seat can be in different spots, 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

Pushing this lever will totally fold down the front seat back of your Mercury Mariner 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 Mercury Mariner

As for folding the front seat of a Mercury Mariner 5-door, the technique is not the same because since it is not built to receive rear passengers through the front doors, your seats don’t have the same functionality we just talked about above. Folding the front seat of a 5-door Mercury Mariner will generally only be useful if you want to carry bulky things. 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 Mercury Mariner, don’t hesitate to consult our article dedicated to this procedure.

If perhaps you have any additional questions about the Mercury Mariner, do not hesitate to consult our Mercury Mariner category.