Perhaps you are the new owner of a Nissan Leaf, have been lent one, or have leased one, you may not yet know all the specifics of this car. This is exactly the subject of this article content, we will help you to execute a common but key task on 3-door cars to be able to transport more than 2 people. That’s why we are going to tell you how to fold a front seat on a Nissan Leaf, for that, first of all, we are going to review the different adjustments of the front seat of your car, and, in a second part, the different ways to fold the front seat of a Nissan Leaf..
The different front seat adjustments of an Nissan Leaf
To begin, we’ll start our article content by telling you the different positioning available on the front seat of a Nissan Leaf. In fact, regardless if 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 access to different settings, here are a good number of the settings you can have on your Nissan Leaf:
- Standard and crucial adjustment for driving without taking risks, this configuration settings of the front seat of your Nissan Leaf enables you to adapt the proximity of the seat to the pedals to be able to fit the size of each person’s legs.
- This setting enables you to have a better ability to see of the road, for small people we tend to elevate the seat and for tall people 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 Nissan Leaf, this setting will enable you, based upon the length of your arms, to have a good driving position without tiring to reach the controls
- The lumbar support: On some interior packages, you will even be able to adjust 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 Nissan Leaf?
After identifying all the seat settings, we will now assist you to fold down the front seat of your Nissan Leaf. Please bear in mind 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 carry a passenger on a 3-door Nissan Leaf, or whether you want to fold it down to transport heavy objects on a 5-door Nissan Leaf, it will not be the same approach, here are the different methods to do it
Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Nissan Leaf.
As we explained to you ahead of, whether it’s to get a passenger in the back seat, or to carry heavy stuff, knowing how to fold the front seat down from its Nissan Leaf is important. This step is quite common, and depending on the year of your Nissan Leaf the lever to fold down the front seat can be in different locations, 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 Nissan Leaf 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 Nissan Leaf
As for folding the front seat of a Nissan Leaf 5-door, the method is not the same because since it is not designed 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 Nissan Leaf 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 space and want to fold the rear seat of your Nissan Leaf, don’t hesitate to read our article content dedicated to this manipulation.
If you need more guides on the Nissan Leaf, go to our Nissan Leaf category.
