[DeTomaso] Optima: red, yellow, or blue

[Thomas Tornblom]

My car had a Yellow Top when I bought it in March 2000, and I replaced 
it in June 2008. The previous owner bought it, unknown when, after 
having to replace the batteries each spring.

The battery usually went flat after being parked about two weeks, I 
believe it was the stereo and alarm system that drained it, and it was 
then sitting like this over the winter. I believe the Yellow Top in the 
car had gone flat a few times before I got the car.

I bought a new Yellow Top, and it is working great, hot or cold, with 
the stock Ford starter.

Thomas

Julian Kift skrev:
> I took back a Red top to Summit Racing a couple months ago when the first cooler weather set in. It was just over a year old and I still even had the receipt. The counter guy turned to his buddy and said 'hey we got another one' and I said do you get a lot back, he replied it was the third one that day!
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> Summit gave me full $ credit to buy something different, however I am told that officially Optima are now only warranting a replacement battery from the original purchase date, not from replacement date.
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> I since purchased a couple of the CTEK smart chargers and keep them on charge all the time. In my experience if you have any type of parasitic loss then Optimas will last no time at all unless constantly trickle charged.
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> YMMV,
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> Julian
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>> From: mikeldrew at aol.com
>> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:49:54 -0500
>> To: msm at portata.com; detomaso at realbig.com
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Optima: red, yellow, or blue
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>> In a message dated 1/4/10 17 22 16, msm at portata.com writes:
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>>> I was wondering which one I should get.  Much to my surprise, the answer
>>> was on the home page.
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>>> http://www.optimabatteries.com/home.php
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>>> See the third image in the rotating ad.
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>> Jim's testimonial isn't particularly encouraging, and I wonder why they 
>> bothered to share it. In it, he states that this battery isn't strong enough 
>> to turn his engine over when it's hot!
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>> He probably has a tired, weak stock starter, and/or poor grounds, and/or 
>> too much timing. He says his motor has 11:1 compression, but unless he's 
>> modified it somehow, that seems unlikely.
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>> In any case, any decent battery should easily be able to turn over a 
>> Pantera engine, hot or cold. If it doesn't, then something is wrong, most likely 
>> with the car, not the battery. 
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>> Still, I'm amazed that Optima thinks that having a customer state that 
>> their battery will only start his car when it's cold is somehow good 
>> advertising?
>>
>> Mike
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