Regardless you are the new owner of a Toyota Highlander, have been lent one, or have rented one, you may not yet know all the particulars of this car. This is exactly the subject of this content page, we will help you to conduct a common but key step on 3-door cars to be able to travel with more than 2 persons. That’s why we are going to show you how to fold a front seat on a Toyota Highlander, for that, first of all, we are going to review the different settings of the front seat of your car, and, in a second part, the different ways to fold the front seat of a Toyota Highlander..
The different front seat adjustments of an Toyota Highlander
Firstly, we’ll start our content page by explaining the different settings available on the front seat of a Toyota Highlander. In fact, whether or not 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 packages you will have have the possibility of using different options, here are a good number of the settings you can find on your Toyota Highlander:
- Simple and fundamental adjustment for driving without taking risks, this adjustment of the front seat of your Toyota Highlander permits you to adjust the proximity of the seat to the pedals to be able to adapt to the size of each person’s legs.
- This setting permits you to have a better ability to see of the road, for tiny persons we typically raise the seat and for tall persons to lower it.
- Finally, the last “classic” configuration is the seat inclination, not to be confounded with the control to fold the seat of a Toyota Highlander, this setting will enable you, depending on the length of your arms, to have an ideal driving position without tiring to reach the controls
- The lumbar support: On some finish, you will also be able to change 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 Toyota Highlander?
After finding out about all the seat settings, we will now assist you to fold down the front seat of your Toyota Highlander. Please remember 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 Toyota Highlander, or whether you want to fold it down to carry bulky items on a 5-door Toyota Highlander, it will not be the same method, here are the different procedures to do it
Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Toyota Highlander.
As we explained to you just before, whether it’s to get a passenger in the back seat, or to carry bulky objects, knowing how to fold the front seat down from its Toyota Highlander is useful. This procedure is quite common, and depending on the year of your Toyota Highlander the lever to fold down the front seat can be in different spots, 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 almost always 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 Toyota Highlander 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 Toyota Highlander
As for folding the front seat of a Toyota Highlander 5-door, the method 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 Toyota Highlander 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 volume and want to fold the rear seat of your Toyota Highlander, don’t be reluctant to consult our content page dedicated to this procedure.
If perhaps you have any additional questions about the Toyota Highlander, do not hesitate to consult our Toyota Highlander category.
