If you are the new possessor of a Subaru Impreza, have been lent one, or have rented one, you may not yet know all the specifics of this car. This is precisely the subject of this content page, we will help you to carry out a simple but essential procedure on 3-door cars in order to travel with more than 2 persons. That’s why we are going to explain you how to fold a front seat on a Subaru Impreza, for that, first of all, we are going to take a look at 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 Subaru Impreza..
The different front seat configurations settings of an Subaru Impreza
To start, we’ll commence our content page by explaining the different positioning available on the front seat of a Subaru Impreza. Indeed, regardless if you want to fold one of your front seats on your motor vehicle, you should know that depending on the model of your car and its finish you will have access to different options, here are the vast majority of the settings you can have on your Subaru Impreza:
- Fundamental and essential adjustment for driving without taking risks, this configuration settings of the front seat of your Subaru Impreza enables you to change the distance of the seat to the pedals in order to adapt to the size of each person’s legs.
- This setting enables you to have a better vision of the road, for small persons we usually raise the seat and for big persons 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 Subaru Impreza, this setting will allow you, dependent on the length of your arms, to have a good driving position without tiring to reach the controls
- The lumbar support: On some interior packages, you will even be able to modify the lumbar support given 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 Subaru Impreza?
After finding out about all the seat settings, we will now help you to fold down the front seat of your Subaru Impreza. Please take note 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 drive a passenger on a 3-door Subaru Impreza, or whether you want to fold it down to carry large things on a 5-door Subaru Impreza, it will not be the same method, here are the different procedures to do it
Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Subaru Impreza.
As we advised you earlier, whether it’s to get a traveler in the back seat, or to carry large objects, understanding how to fold the front seat down from its Subaru Impreza is important. This procedure is quite simple, and according to the year of your Subaru Impreza the lever to fold down the front seat can be in different locations, here are the 3 possible locations 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
Pushing this lever will completely fold down the front seat back of your Subaru Impreza 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 Subaru Impreza
As for folding the front seat of a Subaru Impreza 5-door, the method is not the same 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 Subaru Impreza 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 Subaru Impreza, don’t be reluctant to read our content page dedicated to this manipulation.
If you need more guides on the Subaru Impreza, go to our Subaru Impreza category.
