There he goes again.
Posting bad advice isn't enough - he has to spew mindless rants in response to accurate, constructive information from others. Tell us again, Tim - if someone follows your bad advice and doesn't change their timing belt years past when it's due and it fails, how much are
you going to pay for their engine replacement? Yeah, we thought so.
I've talked with the folks at Honda/Acura about how they run their parts inventory. Dealers don't keep a lot of parts around, except for parts that are used regularly. Parts that are not commonly used are stored and maintained in the Acura parts warehouse, and shipped to the dealers, overnight more often than not. Like most big companies these days, parts inventory and consumption are all tracked by computer, and they have minimum stock points, based on consumption, when they place reorders with the parts manufacturers. They don't
want parts sitting around for years - not only because some parts can age (although that's part of it), but also because they don't want a lot of money tied up in inventory. This is very similar to the just-in-time parts ordering used at the Honda factories, where inventories are kept to a minimum. Many of the parts used at assembly plants arrive there within
hours of when they go onto the cars. For example, the tire manufacturers send truckloads of wheels and tires to the assembly plant, and they are loaded into the truck so that, as they are unloaded, they are in the proper order for the cars that will be moving down the assembly line ready for them a few hours later. These days, inventories are all computer controlled, and they are kept to a minimum wherever possible.
The answer is still, you're almost certainly not going to find a timing belt that is too old to use, not in a Honda warehouse and not at an Acura dealer.
