If the part is backordered, contact Honda Customer Relations and also your Honda dealership and get the part ordered using Critical Backorder. That way, it might come early.
I have a chip in mine, and it's starting to spread a crack, I imagine by winter I will have to get it replaced
That's why I wish the Honda USA had access to the bug deflector for the hood. When ever I've had one installed on a car, I never ever lost a windshield to a rock