Front end and Rear Seats

Right Driving Position

The seat, head back up, seat chugalug and airbags work together to maximize your prophylactic. Using these correctly ensures greater protection.

Person sitting in the driver's seat, seat belt on, hands on steering wheel

Position the seat so you can wear the seat belt correctly, while being as far abroad from the front airbag as possible:

  1. Sit upright with both feet on the flooring and the seat dorsum reclined no more than 30 degrees.
  2. Make certain you can easily attain the pedals and that your arms are slightly aptitude when holding the steering wheel. Your chest should be at least 25 cm from the center of the airbag cover.
  3. Place the shoulder section of the seat belt mid-way between your neck and your shoulder. Fit the lap section of the belt tightly beyond your hips, not beyond your tummy.

Model Y seats include integrated head supports in the front that cannot exist adapted or removed.

Adjusting the Forepart Seats

Three adjustment knobs on the side of the seat
  1. Move seat forward/backward and arrange the seat'due south height and tilt angle up/downward.
  2. Adjust backrest.
  3. Conform lumbar support (if equipped).
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Warning

Before adjusting a front seat, check that the area around the seat is free of obstacles (people and objects).

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Warning

Do not adjust seats while driving. Doing then increases the risk of a collision.

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Warning

Riding in a moving vehicle with the seat back reclined can result in serious injuries in a collision, equally y'all could slide under the lap belt or be propelled into the seat belt. Ensure your seat back is reclined no more than thirty degrees when the vehicle is moving.

Calibrating Seats

(If equipped) You can calibrate the driver seat. This is useful if you find your seat range limited or your driver profile does not automatically adjust the seat for you. Navigate to and follow the instructions on the touchscreen.

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Warning

Ensure nothing is backside or underneath the driver seat during calibration. Failure to do and then may cause serious injury.

Adjusting 2d Row Seat Backs

Model Y provides seating for up to iii passengers in the 2d row. The seat back is split 60/twoscore so adjusting the left seat dorsum moves the seat backs for both the left and heart seating positions, whereas adjusting the right seat back moves only the rightmost seat back.

Utilise the adjustment handles on the outside corner of each second row outboard seat back to suit the corresponding seat back. While pulling and holding the handle, motility the seat back to the desired position, then release the handle. Ensure the seat back is securely latched into position by pushing it frontward and rearward.

Two arrows each pointing to a button on the outside of the second row seats

Folding Second Row Seat Backs

To maximize cargo infinite, each second row seat dorsum tin be folded fully forrard to lay apartment. While pulling and holding the handle, push the corresponding seat dorsum fully frontward.

One second row seat folded forward with arrow pointing down
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Note

Earlier folding seats fully forrard, remove any items from the seats and the rear footwell. To allow the seat backs to fold completely flat, you may need to movement the forepart seats forwards.

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Note

Driving with 2nd row seats folded forwards may increase perceivable noise and/or vibration coming from the rear of the vehicle (torso, break, etc.).

To let you to conduct long items (such as skis) in the rear of Model Y , the center seat dorsum tin also exist independently folded forward. Pull the handle on the rear of the seat back to unlatch information technology, and so pull it forward.

Blue handle on the back of the center seat
Center second row seat folded forward with arrow pointing down

You tin also fold the second row seat backs fully forward past pressing the corresponding switch located on the left side of the rear torso. Pressing the switch causes the seat back to swing forward. You tin can and then push it downward so it lays fully flat.

A callout showing a switch on the left side of the rear trunk

To return the seat backs to their upright position, pull information technology upwards until it locks into place. To confirm that the seat back is locked in the upright position, try pulling it forward.

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Note

Before raising a second row seat back, make certain that the seat belts are not trapped behind the backrest.

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Always ensure the seat backs are locked in their upright position by pushing it frontward or rearward. Failure to do so increases the risk of injury.

Caput Supports

The front seats include integrated caput supports that you lot can not adjust.

The 2d row outboard seats include an adjustable caput support that you lot can enhance, lower, or remove. When either of these seats is occupied by a passenger that is not in a child safety seat, the corresponding head support should be adjusted (align the center of the caput support with the center of the occupant'due south head) and locked into position. To enhance a caput support on a second row outboard seat, pull information technology upward to the desired position. To lower it, printing and agree the button on the base of the outer post while pushing it downwardly.

An arrow pointing to a button on theg head support base, with an arrow pointing down on the head support cushion

The second row heart seat are equipped with the choice to raise a head support. Initially stowed into the seat's back rest, you can access the head support past pulling it upwards.

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Warning

When installing a child rubber seat in a second row seating position, you lot must lower the caput support. The headrest must exist raised and locked in identify when sitting in the rear eye seat.

To stow the caput back up in the second row center seat, press and hold the button on the base of operations of the postal service while pushing the head support fully down.

An arrow pointing to a button on the head support base, with an arrow pointing down on the head support cushion
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To minimize the take chances of severe injury or death in the event of a collision, ensure that head supports are positioned correctly before driving.

Removing/Installing a Head Back up

All head supports in the 2nd seating positions can exist removed. To remove a head support:

  1. Fully raise the caput support by pulling it up.
  2. Press and concord the button located at the base of operations of 1 of the posts.
  3. Insert a brusk, flat object (such as a pocket-size flat-head screwdriver) into the opening in the base of the opposite mail service and pull the head support upward.
    An arrow pointing to a button on the head support base, a screwdriver positioned on the inside head support base, with an arrow pointing up on the head support cushion

To re-install the head support:

  1. With the front of the caput support facing forward, insert both posts into the corresponding holes on the seat back.
  2. Printing downward on the head support until it clicks into place.
  3. Pull upward on the head support to ensure that it is secure.
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Alarm

Ensure that the caput support is correctly installed before seating an occupant. Failure to do so increases the adventure of injury or decease if a collision occurs.

Seat Heaters

The forepart and second row seats incorporate heating pads that operate at three levels from 3 (highest) to ane (everyman). To operate the seat heaters, meet Climate Controls.

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To avert burns resulting from prolonged utilize, individuals who have peripheral neuropathy, or whose capacity to feel pain is limited because of diabetes, age, neurological injury, or some other condition, should practise circumspection when using the climate control arrangement and seat heaters.

Seat Covers

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Warning

Do not use seat covers in Model Y . Doing and then could restrict deployment of the seat-mounted side air numberless if a standoff occurs. Likewise, if the vehicle is equipped with an occupant detection system that is used to determine the status of the passenger front airbag, seat covers may interfere with this system.