Apologies if this has been covered before.

I am replacing the brake dust shield tomorrow since it is all bent to heck on the driver front side and scraping the rotor. I found this out the hard way when doing pads/rotors and the old rotor had just been ran so much a groove was in it from the shield now, thanks previous owner. I have changed these out before on other vehicle's and it was simple bolt on and go procedure basically. I read that these require the removal of the hub in order to access on this car. Okay straight forward enough, but is the spindle nut one time use on these?

I spoke with a Honda parts guy locally and he said I can re-use it. I am leaning towards he is wrong since I have always been told otherwise for other cars and have always changed them with the removal of the hub. Long post over, thanks for replies!

 

Said eff it, and bought a new one. Better safe than sorry.

 

don't really need one except to block the ball joint from the heat... but yeah, they're cheap enough