No way.  OEM, and nothing but.

One has to research like mad to find out what companies make
the different OEM parts for Honda. E.g. I know the oxygen
sensor for my 91 Civic (among other Hondas) is made by Denso
(formerly Nippon Denso). I know a company that sells the
Denso ones.

For timing belt parts, I think the best bet are OEM Honda
online parts sites such as:

http://www.hondaautomotiveparts.com/auto/jsp/mws/PartsSearch.jsp
Great drawings; Rhode Island.
http://www.slhonda.com Click on "Parts and Service," then
"Buy Parts Online." Great drawings; OEM Part numbers;
California.
http://www.cheapesthondaparts.com Colorado.

I have used all three, though I've found the Colorado store
needs a little watching. Still, they're great on the phone,
and for orders over $50, they beat others for shippings
costs.

Increasingly Honda dealership parts departments seem willing
to ship nationwide. I just communicated with a Florida
dealership this morning for trailing arm bushings, on a tip
from another Honda forum. The Florida dealer in fact beat
the Colorado online store for total costs.

Sure is. You'll just be replacing them a lot more often than you would
using OEM

In the end, it will cost you more.  In the 24 years I have owned Honda cars,
I tried aftermarket rotors, pads, etc. etc.  and everytime I ended up NOT
getting the mileage out of the aftermarket parts.

If you want to save money, buy OEM from someone like Majestic Honda (google
it).  They are not the cheapest if you need one inexpensive item (minimum
shipping), but if you need a complete package of items for maintenance, they
can save you quite a bit.

G-Man

Carefull use of aftermarket parts is not a bad idea, but I would stay
away from AC-Delco for Hondas.  AC-Delco is GM's aftermarket brand, and
they don't make any of the parts.  They simply buy them on the world
market, and you never know what you are getting.

John

I am asking this on behalf of a friend who owns a Honda mini van and he i
about to change his timing belt and thought he might as well change th
water pump and other stuff accessible when they work on his vehicle. H
wants to know if it was ok to use non Honda parts like AC Delco
Any contribution will be appreciated
Thank yo
Winsto
Tell your friend to Use "Genuine Honda parts"
and have a "factory trained Honda technition" install not
only the timing belt and water pump but tensioner as wel
followed by a good flush and fill & bleeding of system.

i cant understand why anyone would whant to use a 1 size fit
all like AC delco parts yes they may be a few bucks cheaper to use
but look at the drop back to using them i mean what if in 6 months time fro
now a timing belt brakes or a water pump leakes or a tensioner

starts getting noisy?  well guess what that means you get in there
and open up everything again to get in there when you could of avoide
that the 1st time by using the right parts and not to mention the added expens
the second time  of having to repaire the problem unless you
friend whants to have the headaches of seeing the repaire shop again in the near future tell him to us
or better yet have it done at  HONDA dealership with factory trained technitions on hand

I have a saying i keep with me all the time and that is
           
                     "you either do it right the 1st time or you dont do it at all"  ;

               

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johnin

I am asking this on behalf of a friend who owns a Honda mini van and he i
about to change his timing belt and thought he might as well change th
water pump and other stuff accessible when they work on his vehicle. H
wants to know if it was ok to use non Honda parts like AC Delco
Any contribution will be appreciated
Thank yo
Winsto
Tell your friend to Use "Genuine Honda parts"
and have a "factory trained Honda technition" install not
only the timing belt and water pump but tensioner as wel
followed by a good flush and fill & bleeding of system.

i cant understand why anyone would whant to use a 1 size fit
all like AC delco parts yes they may be a few bucks cheaper to use
but look at the drop back to using them i mean what if in 6 months time fro
now a timing belt brakes or a water pump leakes or a tensioner

starts getting noisy?  well guess what that means you get in there
and open up everything again to get in there when you could of avoide
that the 1st time by using the right parts and not to mention the added expens
the second time  of having to repaire the problem unless you
friend whants to have the headaches of seeing the repaire shop again in the near future tell him to us
or better yet have it done at  HONDA dealership with factory trained technitions on hand

I have a saying i keep with me all the time and that is
           
                     "you either do it right the 1st time or you dont do it at all"  ;

soory for the long page had a computer glich :

               

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johnin