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Many mechanics/shops do not allow you to provide your own parts; it's a pretty standard policy, and avoids arguments over if any subsequent failure was due to your parts or their installation. (And, of course, parts markup is part of how they make money.) I always ask a shop before supplying...

You can borrow a rear piston tool set for free from most autoparts stores with a tool rental program. (AutoZone, Advance, O'Reillys, etc.) Harbor Freight also has a set for sale, but I haven't seen it down to the $20 I paid a few years back; seems stuck at $40. Anyway, the rental kits work...

"As shown" means what exactly it says; use what it says to use. Honda has used the same basic "as shown" text on which viscosity to use as long as I can remember, no matter how many different oil weights are listed. (It means they just have to change the chart for each geography as needed, and...

I just purchased a 2017 CR-V with the 1.5T (not a Civic, I know, but there aren't any decent CR-V forums I could find...) I'm coming off of an '04 VW Passat (1.8T), where any enthusiast worth the title had a copy of the VAG-COM (a.k.a. VCDS-Lite) software, which only cost $100, and could do...