Hey Veeky Forums let's talk tools. I'm poor, and I need tools to work on my '93 Honda Accord (CB7). Are there any good, but cheap to buy tool sets that will cover what I need for the majority of stuff? Obviously excluding specialty stuff. Sort of like the image I used, something like that. Which is like $250-300, but for that money you get like 450 pieces, it sounds like a good deal tbqh.
But in any case, then the follow up would be, if so, would it be cheaper to buy separately or buy a massive tool set?
germanfag here. I bought an entire set with neat tools in some rolling wagon kind of shit. Can always roll it next to car and always know where my stuff is.
Jason Sanders
To fill out the basics like sockets and wrenches thr quickest/cheapest option is harbor freight. Its cheap garbage but guaranteed for life, I've cracked several different pieces on stuck bolts and they just swap me for New ones. Best tip to find cheap good tools is yard/garage sales and estate sales especially. Found an old craftsman rolling toolchest crammed full of nifty old random tools for 150 once.
Noah Wilson
Harbor freight. Buy a mechanics set for like $200. When something breaks, buy a better piece. When you don't have something, buy it.
Or be that retard who buys a snap on kit for 4 grand and only uses the 10mm
Jaxon Clark
pls share, eufag here, would like to buy an equipped trolley and im looking for one
Aiden Gray
Get a set of basic tools, with spanners, ratchet, screwdrivers and some tool bits. Should cost like €100, but will serve you for the basic needs.
What set and what did it cost you?
Parker Campbell
Why is it so important to have the same hex size in several different drive sizes? Maybe I'm just a retard, but it seems like you could just have one drive size set and several adapters and be just fine
Thomas Flores
Did shitton of work on my truck with cheap Lidl sockets set.
Only tool which you must not cheap out on are open wrenches because cheap ones stretch and destroy bolt heads.
Joshua Russell
Because force and using things simultaneously.
Jaxon Wright
If you can't afford to maintain your car, you cannot afford to own the car. If you can't pay a mechanic, you can't afford the car. If you can't afford half-decent tools, you can't afford the car.
Nathaniel Edwards
You probably dont need that big of a all in one set. For starters you won't need any sae sizes..especially on a Honda. Secondly you will need various specialty tools that you can just pick up whenever you are doing a job that needs it. So save on your initial cost so you have some money to buy specialty tools later.
Austin Young
Does this post make you feel better about yourself?
Brody Gomez
But aren't most cars a bastardized mix of SAE and metric?
Noah Thompson
True.
Connor Harris
same retarded fag.
Joseph Cook
Honda not really.
Matthew Cooper
Had to do request to selling company cuz I don't think that they sell them normally. Spent 500€ on it. It's by KS Tools. Doing all my cars only with their stuff atm and everything felt pretty good so far.
Harbor Freight's Pittsburgh Professional line is dirt assed cheap, and solid meh tier. Certainly good enough for the occasional home mechanic doing oil changes, brakes, and mild suspension work.
Regular Pittsburgh is straight garbage though. Avoid. HF's electric tools are also trash. Spend the extra $50 and get Milwaukee Fuel. I'd rather have a 12 volt M12 Milwaukee Fuel impact than a 20V Harbor Freight piece of shit, not even kidding.
Parker Anderson
Harbor freight, Lowes, home Depot, somewhere that offers lifetime warranty on their tools and you can literally bring it back broken and expect a new one in exchange within 5 minutes of being there. Snap on and Mac are great Buuuuuut as a home set it's probably not worth it. I hate mailing in tools for warranty exchange, it'd be much quicker to go down the street
Ian Hughes
Sears doesn't own craftman anymore, DeWalt does, so I don't know if they'll do exchanges there anymore for warranty claims. It may become one of those Mail It In sort of things
Robert Torres
>DeWalt owns Craftsman Stanley bought the Craftsman brand name, not DeWalt.
Hell, even the name "DeWalt" isn't a real company, it's merely a line of Black and Decker tools.
Cooper Jones
Hey op if u haven't gotten anything yet the harbor freight 301 peice mechanic set is on sale right now for 150 dollars with the coupon. Lifetime warranty on a decent set of hand tools. I can probably get u the coupon code number for it
Adam Gonzalez
Here u go op.
48161864 is the coup code. You could buy online or just drive up to one
William Sullivan
>huge set >use 2% of it
Colton Hughes
This.
If you're just using tools to service your car once a year and occasional repairs even cheap tools will last a long time. Buy a torque wrench though, these big tool sets never have one.
I clicked it to double check and yea it's 159 dollars. Follow link and add to cart and it applies automatically.
Dominic Allen
Does owning a car make you feel better as it slowly rusts on the driveway, since you can't afford to drive it, let alone repair it? What happens when something major breaks? Time for a payday loan? And another the next month to make up the shortfall?
Lucas Ortiz
Over the course of your life, you will use it all.
Anthony Gonzalez
>Looking for a socket set >Every set is missing at least 1 or 2 sizes REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Parker Davis
Nice set man I got something similar in the US from greatneck tools to kick start my home garage. Mines not as well organized though but it did come with air tools and some specialty stuff
Jackson Smith
What's a good torque wrench to buy? I seem to see cheap and shitty, or expensive and great. I don't see much in the middle.
Hudson Kelly
Nice set, but a bit empty for the price.
Justin Wright
This user knows what's up. Also never hurts to check out estate/yard sales on the weekend. Can sometimes find old housewives selling their late husband's tool sets that can have a bunch of assorted name-brand good shit.
Blake Hall
everybody's gotta start somewhere. i began my journey with the exact set that you posted. i still have most of the sockets from it and use them in a different holder. i WOULD reccomend upgrading the ratchets, though. i hated the craftstman ratchets. i know you probably won't but i'd reccomend buying some used snap-on ratchets, or maybe proto, mac, matco, or similar. maybe new if you're feeling fancy but they're about 100$ each. the rest of the set
Christopher Taylor
*is more than fine for your use
Leo Price
this is a pretty god damn good set too for the price. i keep one in my trunk and i've had to do some emergency timing belt and slave cyl replacements with it and it had enough to get it done without breaking any of it
Brody Brooks
honda of that vintage can do almost anything with 5.5mm 8 10 12 13 14 16 17 and 19
Brandon Roberts
See, that's how little I care about them mail in brands, you can like em if you want but I sure dont
Lucas Baker
These niggas get it. I was completely ok with the 301 piece set from HF. I also don’t have to worry about anything breaking because if it does I can be in and out with a replacement in seconds. Personally I say go with that set, it’s $150 well spent and you could have money left over to get some torque wrenches as well, those are like $20 a piece at HF.
David Reed
I had a crescent fold open kit I got on Amazon half off for 50 bucks for like fuckin 3 years. I WISH I knew about Veeky Forums and had a harbor freight nearby I woulda gotten the 301 peice kit for sure. I'm harbor freight 4 lyfe now that they built one by my house. Check out this fuckin stubby impact. 4 inches long 2.5 lbs and puts out 700 footlbs? It breaks I just walk there and grab another one pssssh no brainer
Henry Johnson
Got it yesterday. 80 bucks. Magic
Brody Gomez
What do you use for air? I’m skeptical to get a non-battery powered one for that reason.
Benjamin Jenkins
Just buy the three HF ones. I got mine on sale for $8 a piece. Then get them professionally calibrated. A calibrated cheap torque wrench is better than an expensive uncalibrated one.
Is Veeky Forums serious right now? several posts advocating OP buy some giant set of a 3000 piece tool set for $200 to work on his '93 Accord? Wouldn't it be smarter to buy a couple decent quality screwdrivers, some low quality wrenches and sockets for his car's socket size, and a crescent wrench for $75 to fix every fuckin thing on that car?
I nearly got caught in /diy/'s motto of "but a tool whenever you can afford it, even if you don't need it". Thats just pissing money away. Buy a tool when you need it, not when money is burning a hole in your pocket. But since you'll always use a quality screwdriver, a crescent wrench, several box wrenches, and a hammer for the rest of your life, don't be afraid to buy quality tools when you know you'll get more than a couple uses out of it. Don't buy a 1mm-500mm wrench set for 3 thousand dollars because you'll use the 10mm twice in the next year.
Adam Hughes
Literally 150 dollars you pleb good luck getting a big ass crescent wrench anywhere in an engine bay
Austin Morris
Have you ever seen a '93 accord? The thing was designed to be worked on by ahmed or mohammed in an impoverished nation with the barest set of tools. Don't pretend OP needs to take out a mortgage for some Snap-on tools to work on his econobox. If he spends more than $150 on tools to fix anything on that car, he's probably spent too much. That factors in buying a 10 wrench set, 3 pack of drivers, a specialty tool, electronic diagnostics, and some zip ties.
Chase Cooper
you only need 10,12, 14, 17, 19mm to work on a honda. 30mm (truck sockets) for the centre nut to do CV joints.
just buy the cheap chinese tools if they break it only like 10 bucks for another set.
Dominic Gomez
I could see this being good for very general things. But you’ll find out fast that there are things that you’ll need in addition. For that price I like the set though. Is there a lifetime warranty on it?
Levi Parker
The adapters snap when you apply a lot of torque. I snapped 2 3/8" to 1/4" adapters trying to turn a belt tensioner. You need 1/2" sockets for a 1/2" breaker bar or torque wrench or you will just break adapters.
Gavin Russell
I work at sears in the tool department. That is the lowest price I have ever seen that at. In store it is typically only 49 bucks when on sale. I prefer to sell folks in that price range the 155 piece set since it has more 3/8 deep sockets. That 450 set you have is a massive waste of numbers since its all freaking screwdriver bits. The ratchets in all of theses sets are horrible compared to mid price competition but are more comparable to cheap harbor freight ratchets (Non pitt. pro).
William Carter
Buy like 5 extra 10mm sockets, you will lose everyone of them, but at least you'll be able to use them for a month before they disappear.
