Regardless you are the new possessor of a PORSCHE 718, have been lent one, or have leased one, you may not yet know all the main features of this car. This is specifically the subject of this short post, we will help you to carry out a simple but essential step on 3-door cars to be able to transport more than 2 people. That’s why we are going to show you how to fold a front seat on a PORSCHE 718, for that, first of all, we are going to compare the different configuration settings of the front seat of your car, and, in a second step, the different techniques to fold the front seat of a PORSCHE 718..

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The different front seat adjustments of an PORSCHE 718

To start, we’ll start our short post by telling you the different positioning existing on the front seat of a PORSCHE 718. In fact, regardless if you want to fold one of your front seats on your car, you should know that according to the model of your car and its packages you will have access to different settings, here are the vast majority of the settings you can find on your PORSCHE 718:

  • Basic and crucial adjustment for driving without taking risks, this adjustment of the front seat of your PORSCHE 718 allows you to change the proximity of the seat to the pedals to be able to adapt to the size of each person’s legs.
  • This setting allows you to have a better ability to see of the road, for tiny drivers we typically elevate the seat and for tall drivers 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 PORSCHE 718, this setting will enable you, according to the length of your arms, to have the right driving posture without tiring to reach the controls
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  • The lumbar support: On some series, you will even be able to change the lumbar support offered 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 PORSCHE 718?

After identifying all the seat settings, we will in this part assist you to fold down the front seat of your PORSCHE 718. Please remember 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 fit a passenger on a 3-door PORSCHE 718, or whether you want to fold it down to transport heavy stuff on a 5-door PORSCHE 718, it will not be the same procedure, here are the different procedures to do it

Fold down the front seat of a 3-door PORSCHE 718.

As we advised you earlier, whether it’s to get a traveler in the back seat, or to carry heavy objects, knowing how to fold the front seat down from its PORSCHE 718 is useful. This step is quite simple, and according to the year of your PORSCHE 718 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 most cases in the middle of the backrest
  • On the side of the seat in the middle of the seat

Pressing this lever will totally fold down the front seat back of your PORSCHE 718 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 PORSCHE 718

As for folding the front seat of a PORSCHE 718 5-door, the method is not the same because since it is not made to receive rear passengers through the front doors, your seats don’t have the same functionality we just talked about earlier. Folding the front seat of a 5-door PORSCHE 718 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 PORSCHE 718, don’t hesitate to read our short post dedicated to this manipulation.

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