2005 Buick LeSabre Hood Latch

You should open the hood, mark the location of the hood striker on the underside of the hood, remove the bolts retaining the hood striker to the hood and remove the hood striker from the hood.

With the attaching fasteners loosened, you should slowly lower the hood onto the latch in order to achieve the proper cross-vehicle adjustment of the hood latch, raise the hood, and tighten the fasteners in order to secure the hood latch. After the hood adjustment is performed, the sufficient load must remain on the front and rear hood bumpers to eliminate hood flutter. This can be achieved by lowering the hood latch an additional 3 mm (1/8 in), for the front flutter, and raising the rear bumper for the rear flutter.

You should align the front hood seal and the push-in retainers to the hood, install the seal by pushing the retainers into the hood and ensure that all of the retainers are fully seated.

You should remove the push-in retainers, work the hood seal off by pulling the seal straight away from the flange and remove the seal from the vehicle.