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I don't comment on this forum any more but someone mentioned this particular thread.
If its only light regular knocking on hard lock then amost certainly a CV joint running dry.
You don't need a Honda dealer and you probably don't even need a new drive shaft or two, what you need is, either yourself or someone else competent, to snip off the large clamp of all 4 cv joint rubber boots, peel back the rubber boot and repack each joint with the correct CV joint grease, its a moly grease which will probably be labelled as CV joint grease, note the inners despite common belief can make just as much racket as the outers if they run dry.
1 tub of grease costing about a tenner, and a pack of the correct CV joint tie straps and the special tool to tighten them and Robert is your dads brother, you can do this in about an hour for a total cost of about £30 and the pack of ties and clamping tool are with you forever and will save you £hundreds over the years.
You can temporarily refasten the CV joints with strong cable ties pulled tightly, but these should be replaced when convenient by the correct ties once confirmed it has cured the problem, so long as the boot isn't leaking it will lass the MOT with cable tied CV boots.
I do this job as soon as i hear the tell tale noises, been doing this for over 40 years now and am yet as far as i can recall to renew a drive shaft on one of my own cars...i've bought a thin Sealey Tools adaptor that attaches to my grease gun flexible end, its like a 6" long thin hollow pencil, this allows me to snip the small end of the CV boot, slide the adaptor up inside the boot right into the CV joint itself and pump grease in to my hearts content.
Few garages will do this job for you, they'll want to fit new drive shaft @ £££, but you might find a handy proper local mechanic who knows how to save customer's money to do it for you if you don't feel up to it yourself.
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