Great post by farmmech86! Are you getting a job at a shop or just working on your CR-V only? Maintenance on a CR-V is very minimal, fluid changes (oil,trans,diffs if 4wd), filter changes (air, cabin only as there's no serviceable fuel filter on newer-ish Hondas), and occasional spark plug changes and brake jobs. Your CR-V should be the K-series engine, K20 or K24, can't remember now so you won't need to do timing belts as it is chain driven. 8,10,12,14,17,19,32,36 sockets and wrenches are a must for most Japanese imports and you could just about take the whole car apart. But you have to have the right combination of ratchets (fine teeth help tremendously) and extensions to be able to reach certain things. Ratcheting wrenches are very handy! I use my Gearwrench flex-head wrenches more than my Snap-On wrenches. If you plan on doing disc brakes on any Honda, you will need an impact driver to remove the #3 Phillips head screws holding the rotors to the hubs.
A good impact wrench (if you got access to a compressor).
One or two good ball-peen hammers
A set of Prybars
Line wrenches if you'll be replacing rear wheel cylinders. 10mm being the most common.
There's more...but I'm not feeling too well today. A basic HF set should be fine to start. Metric is used on just about everything nowadays, but SAE is still used elsewhere outside of the Automotive industry. It's good to have some standard tools for around the house jobs, like fixing your kids bike, haha! Use tools as they're intended and really they shouldn't break.
