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To adjust the height of your hood such that it rests flush with the front quarters of the car and to do the same with the trunk.
This may eliminate any odd rattles you may hear time to time from the trunk or the hood.
1) Buy beer, higher the quality the better!
2) Invite friend over to have beer!
3) Give friend a beer. Share, it's good karma!
4) Open hood of car, easily done one handed do not spill the beer.
5) Tell friend to sit in car, engine off...beer in hand.
6) Open the hood, look carefully you will see TWO black pucks screwed into the hood (one to the left and the other to the right located at the front of the hood). They are your fine adjust. Mark 0 on both.
7) Turn the puck counter clock wise to elongate it, clock wise to shrink it (insert shrinkage joke here).
8) Turn the puck NO MORE THAN 90 degrees at a time.
9) Close hood carefully feel the gap (insert joke about feeling the gap here).
10) If too high or low tell friend to pop hood and adjust until just right.
11) Repeat with the trunk.
You want it such that the hood is in tension, such that the pucks are in contact and are SLIGHLY compressed when the hood or the trunk is closed. This provided a positive lock on the hood and trunk latch.
This should have happened when the car arrived at the dealer...but it never does in the US. They just assume that we Americas don't care.
There has to also be a fine adjust for the doors as well to ensure proper alignment. Still looking for that one.
But I hope this helps. Also temperature can be a slight issue. Though the pucks don't expand much your hood may when she gets hot. Thus I recommend doing this with a warm engine such that when she cools down the hood is on nice and tight and when you turn her on there are no unusual sounds caused by the latch and the hoop rattling.
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