Regardless you are the new owner of a Nissan NV, have been lent one, or have rented one, you may not yet know all the particulars of this car. This is precisely the subject of this short post, we will help you to accomplish a common but important task on 3-door cars in order to transport more than 2 passengers. That’s why we are going to tell you how to fold a front seat on a Nissan NV, for that, first of all, we are going to talk about the different adjustments of the front seat of your car, and, in a second step, the different methods to fold the front seat of a Nissan NV..

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The different front seat configurations settings of an Nissan NV

Firstly, we’ll start our short post by presenting the different settings available on the front seat of a Nissan NV. In reality, regardless if 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 adjustments, here are most of the settings you can have on your Nissan NV:

  • Basic and fundamental adjustment for driving without taking risks, this adjustment of the front seat of your Nissan NV permits you to adapt the proximity of the seat to the pedals in order 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 small persons we usually elevate the seat and for tall persons 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 Nissan NV, this setting will allow you, dependent on the length of your arms, to have the best 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 Nissan NV?

After looking at all the seat settings, we will in this part assist you to fold down the front seat of your Nissan NV. Please remember that depending on the number of doors on your car the procedure will not be the same. Whether you want to fold down a front seat to transport a passenger on a 3-door Nissan NV, or whether you want to fold it down to transport heavy things on a 5-door Nissan NV, it will not be the same process, here are the different ways to do it

Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Nissan NV.

As we informed you ahead of, whether it’s to get a passenger in the back seat, or to carry heavy items, knowing how to fold the front seat down from its Nissan NV is useful. This procedure is quite common, and depending on the year of your Nissan NV the lever to fold down the front seat can be in different locations, 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

Pushing this lever will completely fold down the front seat back of your Nissan NV 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 NV

As for folding the front seat of a Nissan NV 5-door, the process is not similar because since it is not intended to receive rear passengers through the front doors, your seats don’t have the same functionality we just talked about earlier on. Folding the front seat of a 5-door Nissan NV 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 Nissan NV, don’t be reluctant to read our short post dedicated to this procedure.

If you want more guides on the Nissan NV, go to our Nissan NV category.