Perhaps you are the new owner of a Mitsubishi Eclipse, 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 content page, we will help you to conduct a basic but key step on 3-door cars to be able to travel with more than 2 people. That’s why we are going to show you how to fold a front seat on a Mitsubishi Eclipse, for that, first of all, we are going to compare the different settings of the front seat of your motor vehicle, and, in a second part, the different techniques to fold the front seat of a Mitsubishi Eclipse..

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The different front seat adjustments of an Mitsubishi Eclipse

First of all, we’ll commence our content page by explaining the different positioning available on the front seat of a Mitsubishi Eclipse. 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 packages you will have access to different options, here are the vast majority of the settings you can have on your Mitsubishi Eclipse:

  • Standard and fundamental adjustment for driving without taking risks, this configuration settings of the front seat of your Mitsubishi Eclipse permits you to modify the distance of the seat to the pedals to be able to adapt to the size of each person’s legs.
  • This setting permits you to have a better ability to see of the road, for tiny persons we usually elevate the seat and for tall persons 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 Mitsubishi Eclipse, 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 interior packages, you will in addition 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 Mitsubishi Eclipse?

After discovering all the seat settings, we will in this part assist you to fold down the front seat of your Mitsubishi Eclipse. Please bear in mind that depending on 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 Mitsubishi Eclipse, or whether you want to fold it down to carry bulky things on a 5-door Mitsubishi Eclipse, it will not be the same process, here are the different techniques to do it

Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Mitsubishi Eclipse.

As we told you ahead of, whether it’s to get a person in the back seat, or to carry bulky stuff, understanding how to fold the front seat down from its Mitsubishi Eclipse is essential. This procedure is quite basic, and according to the year of your Mitsubishi Eclipse 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 in general 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 Mitsubishi Eclipse 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 Mitsubishi Eclipse

As for folding the front seat of a Mitsubishi Eclipse 5-door, the approach is not similar because since it is not made to receive rear passengers through the front doors, your seats don’t have the same features we just talked about above. Folding the front seat of a 5-door Mitsubishi Eclipse 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 space and want to fold the rear seat of your Mitsubishi Eclipse, don’t hesitate to read our content page dedicated to this action.

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