If you are the new owner of a Suzuki Grand Vitara, have been lent one, or have leased one, you may not yet know all the particulars of this motor vehicle. This is exactly the subject of this short post, we will help you to perform a simple but key procedure on 3-door cars to be able to transport more than 2 persons. That’s why we are going to tell you how to fold a front seat on a Suzuki Grand Vitara, for that, first of all, we are going to review the different adjustments of the front seat of your motor vehicle, and, in a second step, the different ways to fold the front seat of a Suzuki Grand Vitara..
The different front seat configurations settings of an Suzuki Grand Vitara
To start, we’ll start our short post by describing the different adjustments existing on the front seat of a Suzuki Grand Vitara. Indeed, regardless if you want to fold one of your front seats on your vehicle, you should know that according to 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 find on your Suzuki Grand Vitara:
- Fundamental and crucial adjustment for driving without taking risks, this configuration settings of the front seat of your Suzuki Grand Vitara permits you to adjust the distance 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 perspective of the road, for small persons we tend to bring up the seat and for tall persons to lower it.
- Finally, the last “classic” configuration is the seat inclination, not to be confused with the control to fold the seat of a Suzuki Grand Vitara, this setting will allow you, dependent on the length of your arms, to have an ideal driving position without tiring to reach the controls
- The lumbar support: On some interior packages, you will even be able to adjust 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 Suzuki Grand Vitara?
After discovering all the seat settings, we will now assist you to fold down the front seat of your Suzuki Grand Vitara. Please bear in mind that according to the number of doors on your car the procedure will not be the same. Whether you want to fold down a front seat to transport a passenger on a 3-door Suzuki Grand Vitara, or whether you want to fold it down to carry bulky stuff on a 5-door Suzuki Grand Vitara, it will not be the same approach, here are the different ways to do it
Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Suzuki Grand Vitara.
As we informed you just before, whether it’s to get a person in the back seat, or to carry bulky objects, knowing how to fold the front seat down from its Suzuki Grand Vitara is useful. This procedure is quite simple, and according to the year of your Suzuki Grand Vitara 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 commonly in the middle of the backrest
- On the side of the seat in the middle of the seat
Activating this lever will totally fold down the front seat back of your Suzuki Grand Vitara 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 Suzuki Grand Vitara
As for folding the front seat of a Suzuki Grand Vitara 5-door, the procedure 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 features we just talked about earlier. Folding the front seat of a 5-door Suzuki Grand Vitara will generally only be useful if you want to carry bulky items. 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 Suzuki Grand Vitara, don’t hesitate to read our short post dedicated to this procedure.
If you need more tutorials on the Suzuki Grand Vitara, go to our Suzuki Grand Vitara category.
