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i searched and couldnt find the DIY that was one here recently about installing new wheels and tires.

 
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Um... I didn't know there was one.

Here goes...

1. Buy a floor jack, or just use your car's jack. It's in the trunk. Find it.
2. Park on a level surface and pull your e-brake up.
3. Jack up the support point near one of the wheels. It's thicker than the surrounding metal.
4. Only jack up the support point so that the weight of the car in that corner is on the jack.
5. Loosen the lug nuts on the stock wheel. Use the car's wrench.
6. Jack up the car all the way until the wheel lifts off the ground.
7. Take off the log nuts and the wheel.
8. Now put on the new wheel. The old lug nuts will probably not fit. Use the new ones that should have been given to you with your wheel and toire package.
9. If the new lug nuts have a key, then use it. That key will require a wrench which is probably 17mm.
10. Use a torque wrench to tighten the lug nuts down to 80 foot pounds. I do 70 foot pounds since that's already more than enough to hold the wheel on.
11. If you don't have a torque wrench then just tighten them by hand. Just tighten them as much as you can and you should be fine.
12. Repeat for all other wheels.

 
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I dont think you can install tires yourself ... anyone back me up ?

Installing wheels that have tires on is easy !
Just follow grey's detailed instructions !

 
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I'll back this one up. Unless you have one hell of a home garage set up, you'll need to get the tires mounted on the rims and balanced... You'll need a shop for this. Then it's just a matter of jacking the car up, putting the rims on, hand tightening the lugs, putting it back down, torquing the lug nuts (80 ft-lb), and going. Just make sure you've got centering rings if they're not Honda factory rims.

 
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Right, hub rings. I don't have them and I mount my rims by hand tightening the lug nuts first. Then I jiggle the wheel and hand tighten again. I keep on doing this until I can't move the wheel. This centers the wheel on the hub. The accuracy is very good if the mounting surfaces are even. That is, the lug nuts and where they contact the wheels. If that's even then you can mount the wheels evenly onto the hub without a hub ring.

 
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That would be a major pain in the ***

 
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thanks for your help guys. sorry for not being more detailed, the tires are already on the wheels. do i just slide the hug centering ring things on before i slide the new wheels on? sorry for being such a noob about this.

 
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oh, and one other thing, when i tighten back up the lugs, i need to follow the 12 oclock, 6 oclock 3 o clock, 9 oclock pattern right?

 
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Well, okay. A little more detailed explanation...

When you have the stock wheel off you should clean the mounting surface with some WD-40 and an old toothbrush. You could just use an old rag and some WD-40. Or an old rag and some CLR. Anything like that. Then put on the hub rings. Then put on the new wheel. Make sure that the mounting surface on the new wheel is also clean. Then you tighten in a criss-cross pattern. 12, 6, 3, 9; yep! Don't tighten all the way either. Just tighten a little and move on to the next lug. Keep going until they're all tightened up. Hope this helps...