Posted: 3/27/2009 2:28:19 PM EDT
| hey anyone know were to get one at a good price, looking for a red top, but want to see if i can get better than $169. thanks |
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As of late last year, optima batteries are being made in Mexico. http://cbs4denver.com/local/Optima.Batteries.aurora.2.874937.html It's hard to imgine how the quality of the product would not suffer. i saw some people saying lately that there quality sucks, might reconsider |
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I was twisting wrenches for a living until a couple of years ago. I never though too higly of Optimas anyway. I have the blue top in my toyota. I can't remember how many times I have left the key on (bad ignition switch) for weeks and the battery is dead, dead,dead. jump it and go, I have not had any issues with my Optima in the 4 years I have owned it. I got mine at batteries + |
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I was going to put one in my Jeep CJ. Then I found I can buy TWO Marine Starting batteries at walmart, a dual battery tray, and the shorty cables to connect them for LESS than one Optima. I've been running that setup for over a year now and am very happy. this is what i think im going to do, did you just run poistive and negative cables to the main battery? any special set-up? |
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I was twisting wrenches for a living until a couple of years ago. I never though too higly of Optimas anyway. I have the blue top in my toyota. I can't remember how many times I have left the key on (bad ignition switch) for weeks and the battery is dead, dead,dead. jump it and go, I have not had any issues with my Optima in the 4 years I have owned it. I got mine at batteries + Now granted, I only saw the ones that had problems, but I've dealt with a few customer's cars that came in for starting issues only to find a faulty, but new optima battery installed. The worst are Dura-last- complete junk. I like the heavy duty Interstates, the ones with the black cases, not the white ones ith the green tops. |
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I was going to put one in my Jeep CJ. Then I found I can buy TWO Marine Starting batteries at walmart, a dual battery tray, and the shorty cables to connect them for LESS than one Optima. I've been running that setup for over a year now and am very happy. this is what i think im going to do, did you just run poistive and negative cables to the main battery? any special set-up? I just connected the positives and negatives together with some shorty cables. The marine batteries have an extra terminal that makes this easy. This just doubles your amperage and capacity. There are fancier ways to do it to isolate one of the batteries to run a winch or something though. To do it this way you should use two of the same battery. |