Regardless you are the new owner of a Volkswagen California, have been lent one, or have leased one, you may not yet know all the specifics of this car. This is exactly the subject of this short post, we will help you to perform a common but key step on 3-door cars to be able to travel with more than 2 passengers. That’s why we are going to teach you how to fold a front seat on a Volkswagen California, 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 methods to fold the front seat of a Volkswagen California..
The different front seat adjustments of an Volkswagen California
To begin, we’ll commence our short post by detailing the different configurations existing on the front seat of a Volkswagen California. Indeed, whether or not you want to fold one of your front seats on your 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 most of the settings you will find on your Volkswagen California:
- Simple and essential adjustment for driving without taking risks, this configuration settings of the front seat of your Volkswagen California allows you to change the distance of the seat to the pedals to be able to fit the size of each person’s legs.
- This setting allows you to have a better ability to see of the road, for tiny drivers we typically bring up the seat and for big drivers 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 Volkswagen California, this setting will allow you, based upon the length of your arms, to have an ideal driving posture without tiring to reach the controls
- The lumbar support: On some finish, 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 Volkswagen California?
After learning about all the seat adjustments, we will now assist you to fold down the front seat of your Volkswagen California. Please bear in mind that subject 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 fit a passenger on a 3-door Volkswagen California, or whether you want to fold it down to deliver bulky things on a 5-door Volkswagen California, it will not be the same action, here are the different procedures to do it
Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Volkswagen California.
As we explained to you ahead of, whether it’s to get a traveler in the back seat, or to carry bulky things, knowing how to fold the front seat down from its Volkswagen California is important. This step is quite common, and according to the year of your Volkswagen California 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 in most cases 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 California 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 California
As for folding the front seat of a Volkswagen California 5-door, the procedure 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 features we just talked about above. Folding the front seat of a 5-door Volkswagen California 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 space and want to fold the rear seat of your Volkswagen California, don’t hesitate to read our short post dedicated to this manipulation.
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