If you are the new owner of a Volkswagen Golf 3, 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 content page, we will help you to conduct a basic but key task 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 Volkswagen Golf 3, for that, first of all, we are going to take a look at the different configuration settings of the front seat of your motor vehicle, and, in a second part, the different ways to fold the front seat of a Volkswagen Golf 3..
The different front seat configurations settings of an Volkswagen Golf 3
Firstly, we’ll start our content page by explaining the different configurations available on the front seat of a Volkswagen Golf 3. 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 have the possibility of using different options, here are the majority of the settings you can find on your Volkswagen Golf 3:
- Standard and essential adjustment for driving without taking risks, this adjustment of the front seat of your Volkswagen Golf 3 enables you to modify the distance 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 vision of the road, for small persons we often 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 Volkswagen Golf 3, this setting will enable you, depending 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 modify the lumbar support offered 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 Golf 3?
After looking at all the seat adjustments, we will now assist you to fold down the front seat of your Volkswagen Golf 3. Please take note 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 carry a passenger on a 3-door Volkswagen Golf 3, or whether you want to fold it down to carry large stuff on a 5-door Volkswagen Golf 3, it will not be the same method, here are the different techniques to do it
Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Volkswagen Golf 3.
As we explained to you ahead of, whether it’s to get a traveler in the back seat, or to carry large stuff, knowing how to fold the front seat down from its Volkswagen Golf 3 is useful. This procedure is quite basic, and depending on the year of your Volkswagen Golf 3 the lever to fold down the front seat can be in different spots, 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 general 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 Volkswagen Golf 3 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 Golf 3
As for folding the front seat of a Volkswagen Golf 3 5-door, the approach 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 functionality we just talked about earlier on. Folding the front seat of a 5-door Volkswagen Golf 3 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 Volkswagen Golf 3, don’t be reluctant to consult our content page dedicated to this action.
If perhaps you have any additional questions about the Volkswagen Golf 3, do not hesitate to consult our Volkswagen Golf 3 category.
