Regardless you are the new owner of a Toyota Rav 4, have been lent one, or have leased one, you may not yet know all the particulars of this motor vehicle. This is precisely the subject of this short post, we will help you to carry out a common but useful task on 3-door cars to be able to transport more than 2 passengers. That’s why we are going to explain you how to fold a front seat on a Toyota Rav 4, 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 methods to fold the front seat of a Toyota Rav 4..
The different front seat adjustments of an Toyota Rav 4
Firstly, we’ll start our short post by explaining the different positioning existing on the front seat of a Toyota Rav 4. In fact, even 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 packages you will have access to different configuration settings, here are a good number of the settings you can have on your Toyota Rav 4:
- Standard and fundamental adjustment for driving without taking risks, this adjustment of the front seat of your Toyota Rav 4 enables you to adapt the proximity of the seat to the pedals to be able to adapt to the size of each person’s legs.
- This setting enables you to have a better ability to see of the road, for small drivers we tend to raise the seat and for tall drivers to lower it.
- Finally, the last “classic” configuration is the seat inclination, not to be mislead with the control to fold the seat of a Toyota Rav 4, this setting will allow you, dependent on the length of your arms, to have a perfect driving position without tiring to reach the controls
- The lumbar support: On some series, 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 Rav 4?
After discovering all the seat settings, we will in this part help you to fold down the front seat of your Toyota Rav 4. Please take note that depending on the number of doors on your car the operation will not be the same. Whether you want to fold down a front seat to transport a passenger on a 3-door Toyota Rav 4, or whether you want to fold it down to transport large items on a 5-door Toyota Rav 4, it will not be the same technique, here are the different procedures to do it
Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Toyota Rav 4.
As we informed you ahead of, whether it’s to get a passenger in the back seat, or to carry large things, knowing how to fold the front seat down from its Toyota Rav 4 is important. This procedure is quite common, and according to the year of your Toyota Rav 4 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 commonly 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 Toyota Rav 4 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 Rav 4
As for folding the front seat of a Toyota Rav 4 5-door, the approach 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 functionality we just talked about earlier. Folding the front seat of a 5-door Toyota Rav 4 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 Rav 4, don’t be reluctant to read our short post dedicated to this procedure.
If you need more tutorials on the Toyota Rav 4, go to our Toyota Rav 4 category.
