I ran a yellow top Optima in my Civic from 2009 up till this year. A hell of a run!
Optima battery. They handle the cold much better.
Got a new Exide battery at our expense outside. Car is fine ever since then.
A lot of people say the Optima is not a good battery anymore, but I continue to have good luck with them.
Just replaced battery as EV had stopped working, and the battery dealer said it was. Good battery for hyrbids (Exide X40DPMF)
Ja sam kupio jeftin Exide EA852 online, nisam hteo ništa ponuđeno u lokalnim radnjama, hteo sam konkretno ovaj.
Uspeo sam da ga uglavim jer nemam kućište za akumulator, tj ne celo (A3 2007. godište 2.0). Kupljen je 2022 i evo traje još uvek.
Optima seems to be the only brand of cylindrical Pb batteries for automotive use... pretty much every other automotive Pb battery is prismatic.
That's the first I've seen one fail this way.
However if you bought an Exide battery, 100% it's your issue: I have had three batteries replaced under warranty on my BMW until I said "basta" and bought a Yuasa out of pocket. The amount of weird issues those junky batteries caused was beyond belief.
DO NOT buy a red top Optima. They haven't been good or worth the price in like 15 yrs.
The Exide extreme duty is showing signs of age, it's entirely possible I'll limp it through the next 4 weeks or so and it will get to next winter. It is a 4 litre NA diesel so start demands are pretty high when cold and with the glow plugs.
It 4 years old well past it's warranty period but frankly I'm a little disappointed with it, mainly as the battery is well over and above what the vehicle specifies, it gets regular two hour highway runs (twice a week) and very few short trips.
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