Regardless you are the new owner of a Opel Zafira, have been lent one, or have leased one, you may not yet know all the specs of this motor vehicle. This is specifically the subject of this content page, we will help you to accomplish a common but useful procedure on 3-door cars in order to travel with more than 2 passengers. That’s why we are going to show you how to fold a front seat on a Opel Zafira, for that, first of all, we are going to review 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 Opel Zafira..
The different front seat adjustments of an Opel Zafira
To start, we’ll commence our content page by presenting the different settings available on the front seat of a Opel Zafira. Indeed, whether or not you want to fold one of your front seats on your car, you should know that based on the model of your car and its packages you will have have the possibility of using different adjustments, here are a good number of the settings you can find on your Opel Zafira:
- Basic and essential adjustment for driving without taking risks, this configuration settings of the front seat of your Opel Zafira allows you to change the distance of the seat to the pedals in order to conform to the size of each person’s legs.
- This setting allows you to have a better vision of the road, for small persons we usually raise the seat and for tall persons 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 Opel Zafira, this setting will enable you, dependent on the length of your arms, to have an ideal driving posture without tiring to reach the controls
- The lumbar support: On some series, you will even be able to change 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 Opel Zafira?
After looking at all the seat adjustments, we will in this part help you to fold down the front seat of your Opel Zafira. Please bear in mind that depending on the number of doors on your car the method will not be the same. Whether you want to fold down a front seat to transport a passenger on a 3-door Opel Zafira, or whether you want to fold it down to transport bulky things on a 5-door Opel Zafira, it will not be the same action, here are the different ways to do it
Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Opel Zafira.
As we explained to you earlier, whether it’s to get a person in the back seat, or to carry bulky products, understanding how to fold the front seat down from its Opel Zafira is useful. This step is quite common, and according to the year of your Opel Zafira the lever to fold down the front seat can be in different places, 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 in general 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 Opel Zafira 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 Opel Zafira
As for folding the front seat of a Opel Zafira 5-door, the process is not similar 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 earlier on. Folding the front seat of a 5-door Opel Zafira 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 space and want to fold the rear seat of your Opel Zafira, don’t be reluctant to read our content page dedicated to this procedure.
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