How to Replace Hood Latch 2009-17 Chevy Traverse
Created on: 2018-02-26
How to repair, install, fix, change or replace a broken or loose hood latch on 12 Chevy Traverse.
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step 1 :Removing the Upper Radiator Cover
- Pry up the ten push clips from the cover with a flat blade screwdriver
- Remove the cover
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step 2 :Removing the Hood Latch
- Loosen the 13mm bolts from the hood latch
- Remove the cable from the latch
- Press the lock tabs with needle nose pliers
- Disconnect the electrical connector
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step 3 :Installing the Hood Latch
- Connect the electrical connector
- Connect the cable to the hood latch with needle nose pliers
- Insert the hood latch into place
- Tighten the 13mm bolts to the latch
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step 4 :Installing the Upper Radiator Cover
- Insert the upper cover under the ground point, over the rubber mounts and under the weathestrip
- Press in the push clips
Tools needed
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13mm Socket
Socket Extensions
Flat Blade Screwdriver
Ratchet
Needle nose pliers
Trim Tool Set
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Go inside the vehicle. Open up the hood. Okay. To remove this plastic shield that's in the front of the engine compartment, there are 10 clips. Take a small flat-bladed screwdriver or trim clip tool. Pop them up. To loosen them you need to go in like this. Pull them out. If the middle comes out, it's okay. Then this is, this rubber seal is clipped in here. Just kind of pop it out. Use a small flat-bladed screwdriver. Just pop it up. Use the trim clip tool. These may break when you're taking them out. You might want to have some new ones on hand. If the middle comes out, it just pushes right back in there. Just repeat that for all the clips. These ones are a little trickier, because they're deep inside here. Just try to get this in here and pry them up. Just go along and do the same for all of them. This should just lift right off now. Then we'll put it aside.
To remove the hood latch, it's mounted to a bracket. You could remove the entire bracket as one piece. It does have an electrical connector here that will need to be unplugged, and the hood cable is here. You just want to remove the hood latch and unbolt these 13 millimeter bolts. I'm using a ratcheting wrench. Loosen them up. That bolt. We're going to remove the other bolts. Just put it aside for now.
Push this little ball up and out of there. Use these needle nose pliers to push in on these lock tabs in the hood cable. Push it out. The cable's released. You need to unplug that. So I'm going to use the needle nose pliers to push in on those tabs and then push this out. Get this out of the way. You can unplug it. Sometimes, you got to push in to help unlock it. Push down on the lock tab. Pull it apart, and there's our hood latch.
Plug the electrical connector back in. It'll click when it locks into place. Put the connector back in place. We'll take our hood cable. We'll go through this opening. At the same time, you're going to try to thread it with the opening. It might not. But you just clip it in, and then let's see here. You might have to take the needle nose pliers and just grab it and this is going to push in there. That's locked in place. As far as the adjustment goes, you can see where it's dirty and it's not dirty. That's roughly where the hood latch was.
So I'm going to line it up with the original spots. These holes are slotted. If you need to adjust this hood latch, you can adjust it down, up, left, right. But I'm going to put it back in the original spot just for now. Just going to tighten these bolts up. When I feel it get tight, I'll stop. The same for both. The hood latch is reinstalled.
Install the upper cover on the engine compartment. Slide it under that ground point. It's going to go over these rubber mounts here, both sides. Let's go under this weather strip. Same thing for both sides. Reinstall all the push clips. It's easier to push the clips in if you pull out the center part. This is the last one, and that is complete. Close your hood.
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