Perhaps you are the new owner of a Renault Espace 5, have been lent one, or have rented one, you may not yet know all the specifics of this motor vehicle. This is exactly the subject of this short post, we will help you to conduct a basic but useful procedure on 3-door cars in order to travel with more than 2 people. That’s why we are going to tell you how to fold a front seat on a Renault Espace 5, for that, first of all, we are going to talk about the different adjustments of the front seat of your motor vehicle, and, in a second step, the different techniques to fold the front seat of a Renault Espace 5..

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The different front seat configurations settings of an Renault Espace 5

To start, we’ll start our short post by presenting the different settings available on the front seat of a Renault Espace 5. In reality, whether or not 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 finish you will have have the possibility of using different configuration settings, here are a good number of the settings you will find on your Renault Espace 5:

  • Basic and fundamental adjustment for driving without taking risks, this configuration settings of the front seat of your Renault Espace 5 allows you to adapt the proximity of the seat to the pedals in order to fit the size of each person’s legs.
  • This setting allows you to have a better perspective of the road, for small drivers we often elevate the seat and for tall drivers to lower it.
  • Finally, the last “classic” setting is the seat inclination, not to be confounded with the control to fold the seat of a Renault Espace 5, this setting will allow you, based upon 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 finish, you will also be able to modify the lumbar support given 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 Renault Espace 5?

After looking at all the seat configurations, we will in this part help you to fold down the front seat of your Renault Espace 5. Please be aware that according to the number of doors on your car the method will not be the same. Whether you want to fold down a front seat to fit a passenger on a 3-door Renault Espace 5, or whether you want to fold it down to deliver bulky items on a 5-door Renault Espace 5, it will not be the same action, here are the different procedures to do it

Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Renault Espace 5.

As we explained to you ahead of, whether it’s to get a person in the back seat, or to carry bulky things, knowing how to fold the front seat down from its Renault Espace 5 is essential. This technique is quite basic, and according to the year of your Renault Espace 5 the lever to fold down the front seat can be in different spots, 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 generally 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 Renault Espace 5 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 Renault Espace 5

As for folding the front seat of a Renault Espace 5 5-door, the technique is not similar because since it is not designed 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 Renault Espace 5 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 Renault Espace 5, don’t be reluctant to read our short post dedicated to this manipulation.

If perhaps you have any additional questions about the Renault Espace 5, do not hesitate to consult our Renault Espace 5 category.