Whether you are the new possessor of a seat altea, have been lent one, or have leased one, you may not yet know all the main features of this motor vehicle. This is specifically the subject of this article, we will help you to execute a basic but useful procedure on 3-door cars to be able to travel with more than 2 passengers. That’s why we are going to tell you how to fold a front seat on a seat altea, 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 step, the different ways to fold the front seat of a seat altea..

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The different front seat configurations settings of an seat altea

Firstly, we’ll commence our article by presenting the different configurations existing on the front seat of a seat altea. Indeed, even if you want to fold one of your front seats on your vehicle, you should know that based on the model of your car and its finish you will have have the possibility of using different settings, here are most of the settings you can find on your seat altea:

  • Basic and essential adjustment for driving without taking risks, this adjustment of the front seat of your seat altea permits 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 permits you to have a better vision of the road, for small people we tend to raise the seat and for big people 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 seat altea, this setting will enable you, depending on the length of your arms, to have an ideal driving position without tiring to reach the controls
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  • The lumbar support: On some interior packages, you will also 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 seat altea?

After finding out about all the seat settings, we will now help you to fold down the front seat of your seat altea. Please take note that subject 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 seat altea, or whether you want to fold it down to transport bulky items on a 5-door seat altea, it will not be the same procedure, here are the different techniques to do it

Fold down the front seat of a 3-door seat altea.

As we advised you just before, whether it’s to get a traveler in the back seat, or to carry bulky things, knowing how to fold the front seat down from its seat altea is useful. This procedure is quite basic, and according to the year of your seat altea the lever to fold down the front seat can be in different spots, 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 generally 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 seat altea 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 seat altea

As for folding the front seat of a seat altea 5-door, the approach is not similar because since it is not intended to receive rear passengers through the front doors, your seats don’t have the same features we just talked about earlier on. Folding the front seat of a 5-door seat altea 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 seat altea, don’t hesitate to consult our article dedicated to this procedure.

In the event that you have any further questions about the seat altea, do not hesitate to consult our seat altea category.