Lead acid batteries take quite a long time to charge from being completely dead. I've brought a battery for a 'charge and test' at a auto parts store once because it was sitting in a car for months on end and wouldn't do anything but click the solenoid when trying to start. The auto parts store charged it for an hour and load tested it and told me 0 cranking amps. I brought it home and charged it for about a full day, put it back in his car and it started right up and a year later he is using it. If you've completely drained the battery, you need to hook it to an external charger for at least a good 16 hours and 10 hours at the bare minimum to get it back to where you really want it to be.
...either that or if Honda won't bother with it, use it as a chance to get your battery replaced for free, they probably won't bother charging it for long and might just replace it, or possibly load test it and then replace it. I'd bring it in and Honda will probably swap the battery since you are going to be under the free replacement warranty for it and they likely won't bother to check too far into it.
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2000 MT Insight "Silver Sipper"
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