I don't know why you have to pay any money. It should be free. I bought my car used and there wasn't any manual or code. I went to a local Honda dealer and asked them for it. They will need you to prove the ownership of the car. In order to give you the code, they have to have to serial on top or on the back of the player. They told me they wanted $50 to pull the cd player out to read the serial number. I knew that they would try to get my money so I already pull it out and ahead of time. The code was given to me free.