That is ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous.

In my mind, they set the precedent when they gave me mine for free. I may have been lucky, because (who I assume was the boss/manager) was roaming around office and came over and gave the chick who I was with a hand to find it.

I know it's alot of stuffing around, but I strongly recommend that you go back in there, and ask to speak to the manager, and get him to give you a hand.

Like I said mate, I got mine for free, and my car is a few years older (1998) than yours, and it was still in the system.

That's just BS from Honda's side unfortunately.