Who has an Optima battery?

[hollywoodstang]

I called optima last week, had questions about a battery i bought from a friend. They were extremely helpful and thier advice helped me save my battery. It would charge, but in a day or two it would be dead. They told me to charge it on the desulfate setting on my charger and it worked out.

Have you ever dealt with thier service dept first hand? Why do you say its flaky?

Optima/OptimaJim took care of me

 

[S351Saleen77]

I have a few Optima battery's now. My cars sit during the winter. I use a Cetek charger which they say is the "worlds smartest charger" Anyway it's a 4 stage charger and has a setting for AGM batteries like the Optima's.

I try to put it on each car once a month during the winter. I haven't had any problems with the Optima batteries since I got the charger.

My first red top failed after 7 yrs of mostly sitting and I never charged it at all. Thats when I decided to buy a "Smart" charger.

 

[puma1552]

Optima--waste of money, heavy as hell, and butt ugly.

Seriously who needs a massive and expensive battery which will forever be a consumable anyway? The Motorcraft ones are the best ones for our cars.

$150-$300 on a battery that's just going to die like any other is a waste of money.