Regardless you are the new possessor of a Volkswagen Transporter, have been lent one, or have leased one, you may not yet know all the details of this car. This is specifically the subject of this article, we will help you to carry out a simple but useful task 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 Transporter, for that, first of all, we are going to take a look at 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 Transporter..

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The different front seat configurations settings of an Volkswagen Transporter

To begin, we’ll commence our article by presenting the different adjustments existing on the front seat of a Volkswagen Transporter. Indeed, even if you want to fold one of your front seats on your car, you should know that according to the model of your car and its finish you will have have the possibility of using different options, here are a good number of the settings you will find on your Volkswagen Transporter:

  • Basic and fundamental adjustment for driving without taking risks, this adjustment of the front seat of your Volkswagen Transporter enables you to modify the distance of the seat to the pedals to be able to fit the size of each person’s legs.
  • This setting enables you to have a better vision of the road, for small drivers we tend to 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 Transporter, this setting will allow you, determined by the length of your arms, to have the ideal driving posture without tiring to reach the controls
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  • The lumbar support: On some interior packages, 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.

How do you fold the front seat down from a Volkswagen Transporter?

After looking at all the seat configurations, we will in this part help you to fold down the front seat of your Volkswagen Transporter. Please take note that subject to the number of doors on your car the process will not be the same. Whether you want to fold down a front seat to fit a passenger on a 3-door Volkswagen Transporter, or whether you want to fold it down to carry bulky things on a 5-door Volkswagen Transporter, it will not be the same technique, here are the different techniques to do it

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

As we explained to you ahead of, whether it’s to get a traveler in the back seat, or to carry bulky items, understanding how to fold the front seat down from its Volkswagen Transporter is essential. This step is quite simple, and depending on the year of your Volkswagen Transporter 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 usually in the middle of the backrest
  • On the side of the seat in the middle of the seat

Pushing this lever will completely fold down the front seat back of your Volkswagen Transporter 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 Transporter

As for folding the front seat of a Volkswagen Transporter 5-door, the process is not the same because since it is not built to receive rear passengers through the front doors, your seats don’t have the same functionality we just talked about above. Folding the front seat of a 5-door Volkswagen Transporter will generally only be useful if you want to carry bulky things. 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 Transporter, don’t be reluctant to consult our article dedicated to this procedure.

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