General consensus is that the yellow top optima battery is best. Also, the optima is the only aftermarket battery that has the vent hole in the same place as the OEM battery.
I found my first optima red top. It was dead when I found it. I just happened to have an agm battery charger/restorer. It took three days of sitting on the machine reconditioning, and then a day or so of charging afterwards. It held a charge forever. It was made in 05 or something like that, and it ran great until this year. I have since replaced it with a new one, and it works great as well.
I have an optima red top 34/78. Its incredible. Been almost 3 years in and no matter how much I throw at it on the trails I dont get dead cells. The individual gel cells are less perceptible to shake damage from rough terrain.
I’ve got yellow top optima. Hasn’t failed me yet :)
I put that same Optima in 6 years ago (to the month!). Mines still fine knock on wood
I just purchased an Exide battery at Home Depot yesterday for my 2002 Jetta Wagon. It was only $109.99.....about $50 less expensive than anything comparable in any of the big 4 parts stores, locally. It also has the best warranty of all of them (3 year replacement).
I have an optima, have had others, love them. The only issue I've ever had with an optima is getting a severely discharged battery to take a charge, but through youtube i figured out it was an issue with my charger and started putting another one in parallel.
The "new" Optima in my RX7 died after a very short life
Optimas are garbage. Mine didn't survive a 3 month work assignment. The battery was less than 2 years old, and fully charged when I left. Dead when I came back. Blew up like a football when I tried to charge it.
Optima batteries are garbage.
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