How to Replace Hood Latch 2006-11 Toyota Camry
Created on: 2017-10-04
How to replace a broken or stuck hood latch on 09 Toyota Camry
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step 1 :Removing the Front Bumper
- Place tape along the edge of the bumper to mark its location
- Remove the 10mm bolts from the splash shield
- Remove the splash shields
- Turn the clip in the fender liner on either side
- Pull back the fender liner
- Remove the 10mm bolt from the bumper on either side
- Remove the 10mm bolt from the metal support on top of the bumper
- Pry up the plastic pin from the headlight with a flat blade screwdriver
- Remove the Phillips retainer from the bracket
- Pry up the plastic pin from the headlight with a flat blade screwdriver
- Pull the bumper off of the bracket
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step 2 :Removing the Hood Latch
- Remove the three 10mm bolts from the hood latch
- Lift the hood latch out of the vehicle
- Lift the cable out of the bracket
- Slide the cable end out of the latch
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step 3 :Installing the Hood Latch
- Weave the cable behind the horn bracket
- Slide the cable into the latch
- Place the latch on
- Tighten the 10mm bolts to the latch
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step 4 :Installing the Front Bumper
- Hang the bumper on the top brackets
- Push the bumper into the bracket on both sides
- Press in the push clips to the headlights
- Tighten the Phillips retainers to the metal bracket
- Press in the clips to the bumper
- Tighten the screw to the bumper behind the fender liner on both sides
- Replace the splash shield
- Tighten the 10mm bolts to the splash shield
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step 5 :Adjusting the Hood Latch
- Loosen the three bolts and adjust the latch accordingly if needed
- Close the hood and check for panel gaps
Tools needed
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Socket Extensions
Flat Blade Screwdriver
Phillips Head Screwdriver
Rust Penetrant
Painter's Tape
10mm Socket
Ratchet
Hi, I’m Mike from 1A Auto. We’ve been selling auto parts for over 30 years!
We'll show you how to remove the hood latch. With the bumper removed it's a little bit easier to get access to these three 10 millimeter bolts. You can certainly do it with the bumper here, but again, it might be easier for you if you take the bumper off.
I'm going to put some protective tape on the edges of the bumper and the fender, so that while we're handling the bumper, we're going to avoid scratching up the paint. Just repeat this with the other side. To take the front bumper off.
You don't have to have the car in the air, but it does make it easier for us to show you what we're doing. You're going to remove this 10-millimeter bolt here. There was one here, all of them right across the front: one here, here, another one here, and this one over here. I’m just going to use a 10-millimeter socket. They do have a spot in them for a Phillips head screwdriver, but the socket makes it a little bit easier.
To remove these lower splash shields, I'm going to remove the other 10-millimeter bolts. One over here. I'm going to remove these bolts here, so I'm probably going to replace these with after-market ones. They're most likely going to be 10 millimeters, like the other ones, but on this car, they're 1/4". On each side of the bumper, there's a small plastic clip. We use a flat bladed screwdriver to turn it 90 degrees to unlock it.
Then we use a plastic prying tool, like the ones you can get at 1AAuto.com to pry it out. Put that aside so we don't lose it. That's what's holding in the bumper to this fender liner. Once you remove this pin, you got to move up here, and you can pull down the fender liner. There's a hidden fastener up here. It's 10 millimeter. Also has a Phillips head screw head to it, but I'm going to use a 10-millimeter socket because it's easier. Go ahead and remove it. Repeat this for the other side. This bolt might be a little rusty underneath. I'm going to spray some rust penetrant. Take our 10-millimeter socket and remove it.
This is a one single bolt that is holding on this entire middle support that's on the top of the bumper. On both sides of this bumper, there is a screw with a rubber cap around it and a bunch of these push pins. This larger one here attaches to the headlamp assembly. It's actually broken on our vehicle, so it needs to be pushed out so the bumper can come apart. I'm going to leave this one in here because it's already broken. We're going to remove this, and then the other side I will push this pin out.
Using a Phillips head screwdriver. That feels pretty rusty, I'm going to use some rust penetrant in there. See how the top of this bumper's now loose, so it's come off of this middle bracket. It should be pinned into here on the headlight, but this part of the headlight is actually broken off. You need to push this pin out. It's going to be pretty difficult where it's like a flush mounted pin, so I'm going to take a plastic prying tool that you can get from 1AAuto.com. I'm going to push it in here. I'll try to pry up on that. It'll work, it might not work. I might just take a very small flat-headed screwdriver, and go up in here. That actually did the trick. So that will be loosen from the headlight assembly. I need to remove this screw. With all the fastener removed, the bumper should unclip from the body.
You have to give it a bit of a pull to pull off of this bracket. It snaps down to here. It's going to actually sit on top of those metal brackets on the top of the bumper, so that's okay. I'm going to do the same on this side. Just got to put your hands underneath. Get a firm tug. With it loose, you can lift the whole bumper off.
Move the hood latch. Move the three 10 millimeter bolts that are holding it on. Pull this out. You kind of slide it out between the sheet metal. I just moved the horn out of the way. Now get some more slack. Take a flat bladed screwdriver and just pop this cable out of where it's sitting. Now with it out I can slide the little weight end just down there, and the latch is removed.
Reinstall the hood latch to the hood cable. It was behind here. Get the little leg weight part lopped into here, and then push the classic part up into the bracket, just like that, it's pushed up. Let's spin this over, and then go behind that, down and over, and get it lined up. These two upper bolts, one here. It does have a little bit of adjustment, but you can kind of see where the original, there's an outline where the original bolt heads were. For now, I'm going to line it up with those and hope that it stays the same. If not, I'll have to come back and adjust it. So you can move it around. Just do your best to line it up with where the marks were from the original bolts.
I'll reinstall the bumper. We'll hang it on the top brackets. This is why we put tape, so as we're moving around we don't scratch anything. This can be pushed back into the bracket now. Same for the other side. Install the push clips into headlamp.
Then these bumpers have bolts in them, Phillips head screw. Install the bolt on top of the bumper. I'm going to reinstall these plastic locks. They went in this way, and then turned. Install the self-tapping screw that's up here behind the fender liner. Reinstall the locking clip. Reinstall the self-tapping screw behind the fender liner. Reinstall the splash shield.
Slide up into the bumper. Reinstall the other half. This piece went up into here. Just reinstall whatever hardware that's original to the vehicle that you took out here. Peel off all the tape that you're using to protect the body work.
We need to adjust the alignment of your hood latch. You can loosen the three bolts. Remove the hood latch to where you need it to be, and close the hood. Check the alignment of this panel gap between the hood and the fender, and the same on the other side, and along the edge of the bumper. Our car looks good so I'm going to leave it alone.
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