Perhaps you are the new possessor of a Volvo V60, have been lent one, or have leased one, you may not yet know all the specs of this car. This is exactly the subject of this short post, we will help you to accomplish a common but key task on 3-door cars in order to travel with more than 2 passengers. That’s why we are going to teach you how to fold a front seat on a Volvo V60, for that, first of all, we are going to compare the different configuration settings of the front seat of your car, and, in a second part, the different methods to fold the front seat of a Volvo V60..
The different front seat adjustments of an Volvo V60
Firstly, we’ll commence our short post by detailing the different positioning existing on the front seat of a Volvo V60. In reality, 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 adjustments, here are the vast majority of the settings you will find on your Volvo V60:
- Basic and essential adjustment for driving without taking risks, this adjustment of the front seat of your Volvo V60 permits you to adapt the distance of the seat to the pedals in order to conform to the size of each person’s legs.
- This setting permits you to have a better ability to see of the road, for small people we usually raise the seat and for big people to lower it.
- Finally, the last “classic” setting is the seat inclination, not to be confused with the control to fold the seat of a Volvo V60, this setting will enable you, determined by the length of your arms, to have an ideal driving posture without tiring to reach the controls
- The lumbar support: On some series, you will in addition be able to adjust 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 Volvo V60?
After identifying all the seat settings, we will now help you to fold down the front seat of your Volvo V60. Please take note that according to the number of doors on your car the operation will not be the same. Whether you want to fold down a front seat to transport a passenger on a 3-door Volvo V60, or whether you want to fold it down to transport bulky items on a 5-door Volvo V60, it will not be the same process, here are the different procedures to do it
Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Volvo V60.
As we advised you ahead of, whether it’s to get a person in the back seat, or to carry bulky products, knowing how to fold the front seat down from its Volvo V60 is useful. This procedure is quite common, and depending on the year of your Volvo V60 the lever to fold down the front seat can be in different spots, here are the 3 possible spots 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
Activating this lever will totally fold down the front seat back of your Volvo V60 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 Volvo V60
As for folding the front seat of a Volvo V60 5-door, the method is not similar 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 Volvo V60 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 Volvo V60, don’t be reluctant to read our short post dedicated to this action.
To find more tips on the Volvo V60, take a look at the Volvo V60 category.
