Optima batteries - pro / con?

[Thunder]

I have a Wal mart marine battery in my boat it sat for 6 months without a charge. It lit my boat up today no problem. Personally I think optima batts are way over rated and over priced. But i guess if you pay 100 bucks for a battery you get what you pay for.... If thats what you believe

 

[badger red]

I have two red tops--one in the wife's DD K2500 and one in my old K5 which isn't driven very often and that is the reason I put one in the K5--no problems yet fires up every time and we had a pretty cold winter for my part of KS. From what I understand, they're more vibration resistant, hold their charge longer and handle extreme temperatures well.

Jeff

 

[blazinzuk]

I have had a red top and now have a yellow top. I had to drive a long ways on a bad wheel bearing(bad vibrations) and it killed a normal battery, well as luck would have it nearly a year later making the same trip and the same wheel bearing went bad. The optima survived just fine. I did eventually ruin it after 6 years by charging it too fast. Now my battery charger has a setting for gel cel batteries.

 

[Redwookie]

Optimas

Hey there,

There's a gaggle of info on there web site as far as i can see the yellow is better fo deep cycles i.e. running gear when the truck's off while the red top offers a little more cranking power for cold starts. Also both are supposed to last longer when not in use than conventional batteries as well as be more shock resistant.

Here's the link:

http://www.optimabatteries.com/publish/optima/americas0/en/config/product_info/automotive.html