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He probably raised the price because the part is now discontinued.
I ordered the same part from an Acura dealership back in December, and Honda Canada told them 77295-SNR-C51ZB is no longer available. The replacement part # is identical except an "A" replaces the "B".
As it happens, I just picked up 77295-SNR-C51ZA today. From what I can tell, it's identical to the other one (but bear in mind that I never saw 77295-SNR-C51ZB in person. I also never realized that there's a sloped "indentation" or something inside the storage compartment box, so it's effectively rather smaller than the stock Si's. I wonder if this might be to make room for something related to the the climate controls in the CSX. I also got the Touring model's cup assembly to colour-match the console box, but maybe they didn't sell many cars without the climate-control, so that's why they discontinued the console box part...? Who knows. She said the part I wanted was probably discontinued because of some manufacturing problem with it, but again, she couldn't be sure).
The woman at Acura wasn't sure of any difference, but she said the letter in the part# is normally to indicate a colour difference (which makes sense, because Honda console parts I've seen for Civics with different interiors have different letters to distinguish their part #s). But I held the new part next to my Si's dash and it looked identical to me.If I get a chance I will post a picture of the parts I got...none are installed yet though, and may not be for a while (at least until it gets warmer and less snowy outside).
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