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Do you have to depressurize the brakes on a 2002 Honda Accord to change them?

If you are changing brake pads, but not calipers, you don't have to bleed the brakes, just pull the old pads from the clips, and replace with new ones. If your rotors have any grooves or hot spots on them, you will want to get them turned(machined, shaved, whatever you want to call it)before putting them back on the car.

If by depressurize you mean you can't get the new pads on because of the pistons sticking back on too far, you shouldn't need to. Sometimes you can push the pistons back into the caliper carefully with a C-clamp or a pliars, depending on how the caliper is shaped. The fluid should just be pushed back up into the reservour.

The only time you would have to depressurize the brakes is if....... Well never. Yea, alls you do is squeeze the piston back in.

you shouldn't have to bleed them, just compress the caliper with a C clamp so there's clearance for the new pads, however if there anti lock breaks you have to pinch the break fluid line and open the bleeder to compress them other wise you'll damage the valve in the line