Whether you are the new possessor of a Volkswagen Atlas, have been lent one, or have rented one, you may not yet know all the specs of this car. This is exactly the subject of this content page, we will help you to accomplish a common but important step on 3-door cars to be able to travel with more than 2 persons. That’s why we are going to tell you how to fold a front seat on a Volkswagen Atlas, for that, first of all, we are going to talk about the different settings of the front seat of your car, and, in a second part, the different techniques to fold the front seat of a Volkswagen Atlas..

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The different front seat configurations settings of an Volkswagen Atlas

To begin, we’ll start our content page by detailing the different configurations available on the front seat of a Volkswagen Atlas. Indeed, regardless 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 packages you will have access to different options, here are most of the settings you can have on your Volkswagen Atlas:

  • Simple and crucial adjustment for driving without taking risks, this adjustment of the front seat of your Volkswagen Atlas allows you to modify the proximity of the seat to the pedals to be able to adapt to the size of each person’s legs.
  • This setting allows you to have a better ability to see of the road, for small drivers we typically bring up the seat and for tall drivers 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 Volkswagen Atlas, this setting will enable you, depending on the length of your arms, to have the best driving position without tiring to reach the controls
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  • The lumbar support: On some finish, you will in addition be able to change the lumbar support given 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 Volkswagen Atlas?

After discovering all the seat adjustments, we will in this part help you to fold down the front seat of your Volkswagen Atlas. Please bear in mind 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 transport a passenger on a 3-door Volkswagen Atlas, or whether you want to fold it down to transport large things on a 5-door Volkswagen Atlas, it will not be the same method, here are the different ways to do it

Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Volkswagen Atlas.

As we advised you ahead of, whether it’s to get a person in the back seat, or to carry large items, knowing how to fold the front seat down from its Volkswagen Atlas is essential. This procedure is quite common, and depending on the year of your Volkswagen Atlas the lever to fold down the front seat can be in different places, 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 almost always in the middle of the backrest
  • On the side of the seat in the middle of the seat

Pushing this lever will totally fold down the front seat back of your Volkswagen Atlas 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 Volkswagen Atlas

As for folding the front seat of a Volkswagen Atlas 5-door, the method is not the same 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 above. Folding the front seat of a 5-door Volkswagen Atlas will generally only be useful if you want to carry bulky objects. 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 Volkswagen Atlas, don’t be reluctant to read our content page dedicated to this manipulation.

If you have any further questions about the Volkswagen Atlas, do not hesitate to consult our Volkswagen Atlas category.