Perhaps you are the new owner of a Volkswagen Polo 8, have been lent one, or have leased one, you may not yet know all the details of this car. This is precisely the subject of this content page, we will help you to carry out a simple but useful procedure on 3-door cars to be able to travel with more than 2 persons. That’s why we are going to teach you how to fold a front seat on a Volkswagen Polo 8, for that, first of all, we are going to review the different settings of the front seat of your car, and, in a second step, the different techniques to fold the front seat of a Volkswagen Polo 8..

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The different front seat adjustments of an Volkswagen Polo 8

Firstly, we’ll start our content page by presenting the different settings available on the front seat of a Volkswagen Polo 8. In fact, whether or not you want to fold one of your front seats on your car, you should know that based on the model of your car and its finish you will have access to different settings, here are most of the settings you can find on your Volkswagen Polo 8:

  • Simple and crucial adjustment for driving without taking risks, this configuration settings of the front seat of your Volkswagen Polo 8 allows you to adjust 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 perspective of the road, for tiny persons we tend to raise the seat and for big persons 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 Volkswagen Polo 8, this setting will enable you, based upon the length of your arms, to have an ideal driving position without tiring to reach the controls
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  • The lumbar support: On some series, you will even 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 Polo 8?

After identifying all the seat adjustments, we will in this part help you to fold down the front seat of your Volkswagen Polo 8. 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 fit a passenger on a 3-door Volkswagen Polo 8, or whether you want to fold it down to transport bulky things on a 5-door Volkswagen Polo 8, it will not be the same technique, here are the different procedures to do it

Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Volkswagen Polo 8.

As we explained to you just before, whether it’s to get a passenger in the back seat, or to carry bulky things, understanding how to fold the front seat down from its Volkswagen Polo 8 is useful. This procedure is quite simple, and depending on the year of your Volkswagen Polo 8 the lever to fold down the front seat can be in different locations, 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 usually 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 Polo 8 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 Polo 8

As for folding the front seat of a Volkswagen Polo 8 5-door, the process is not similar 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 earlier. Folding the front seat of a 5-door Volkswagen Polo 8 will generally only be useful if you want to carry bulky goods. 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 Polo 8, don’t be reluctant to read our content page dedicated to this manipulation.

If perhaps you have any additional questions about the Volkswagen Polo 8, do not hesitate to consult our Volkswagen Polo 8 category.