Optima Batteries

87TPIYJ · Oct 14, 2020

I have had a Die Hard Platinum AGM Grp65 since 2014. My Jeep has set for looooong periods of time. It has never given me an ounce of trouble. Unfortunately they stopped selling that line. Basically it was a re-branded Odyssey battery that was cheaper. Ill spend the coin on Odyssey for my next battery.

ridered3 · Oct 14, 2020

In my old CJ7 I had a Red Top that would constantly discharge if you looked at it funny. Rewired the entire Jeep front to back and fixed several of the bad connections/wiring/draws and it would still discharge despite having no parasitic draws. Was glad that battery went bye bye when the CJ7 sold. So I guess that one was built on a Friday afternoon

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Had another Red Top in the RzR that just sold and had zero issues out of that battery in 2+ years of ownership. RzR would sit for several weeks and fire up immediately. So I guess that one was build mid-morning on a Monday

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Juggy has a Northstar battery so I don't have these problems anymore :dblthumb:

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smbroady82 · Oct 14, 2020

I've had better luck out of Yellow tops than Red for what its worth.

Wmikew06 · Oct 14, 2020

I have a blue top in my truck and it has been sitting since February, and started the truck right up last weekend.

onetoncrawler · Oct 15, 2020

I bought an Optima charger and have been adamant about hooking it up any time I let a battery sit for any length of time. It has been great and well worth the money. I haven't killed an optima since purchasing. Once it charges it switches over to a maintenance mode and keeps the battery healthy. You can hard wire in a jumper to the leads and have a simple quick connect if the battery is hard to reach.

I'd recommend the charger even if you switch brands.

smbroady82 · Oct 15, 2020

onetoncrawler said:
I bought an Optima charger and have been adamant about hooking it up any time I let a battery sit for any length of time. It has been great and well worth the money. I haven't killed an optima since purchasing. Once it charges it switches over to a maintenance mode and keeps the battery healthy. You can hard wire in a jumper to the leads and have a simple quick connect if the battery is hard to reach.

I'd recommend the charger even if you switch brands.

Which one Daniel? There look to be a few different optima brand chargers.

onetoncrawler · Oct 15, 2020

smbroady82 said:
Which one Daniel? There look to be a few different optima brand chargers.

kmcminn · Oct 18, 2020

Well I trickle charged the red top yesterday. The load tested it afterwards it passed the test. We shall see.

kmcminn · Jan 30, 2021

Well I rode it twice after trickle charging. It would act right when it was cold but as soon as the battery got hot it would start bogging. I went a head and bite the bullet and got a yellow top.