Hot Optima

[Chris_Bryant]

A friend just sent me this- jokingly asked if this was why it wouldn't hold a charge 🙂

[Denny___Jami]

Ed_Gee wrote:
Wow. Someone overcharged that battery??? I simply don't understand why anyone would use Optima batteries when for about the same money they can get a standard construction AGM battery with twice the capacity.

I use Optima batteries, the first set lasted 13.5 years. The set I just installed are bigger than my last ones (D31M instead of D34M), I also looked and I never found anything that had twice the capacity and most cost more, the new ones have 75AH and because of the way they are made I was able to use my old sliding tray be angling them.

If you buy Optimas don't buy them off the internet, read the warranty, they have a paragraph in RED that says they will not warranty them because they aren't authorized dealers and the batteries may be rejects. The ones I bought had a little different number because they came from a Interstate Dealer, I can warranty them at any Interstate Dealer in the country.

Denny

[MEXICOWANDERER]

The hole is plenty big enough to let 2-charges escape shoulder-to-shoulder. You've heard the old saw about the steel ball a d feather duster...

[time2roll]

Well that is one way to open the Optima to add water 😉

[YC_1]

lj2654 wrote:
duct tape will fix it!

Be sure to top it off with some tap water first.

[Chris_Bryant]

He's pretty sure he over charged it- it's been used a bunch of places- boat, trailer, truck, and it's probably 10 years old.

[lj2654]

duct tape will fix it!

[MrWizard]

There was no comment about what it was used in
May have come out of jeep, jet ski, or boat

[2oldman]

Ed_Gee wrote:
I simply don't understand why anyone would use Optima batteries ..

Pretty and cylinders. 🙂

[Ed_Gee]

Wow. Someone overcharged that battery??? I simply don't understand why anyone would use Optima batteries when for about the same money they can get a standard construction AGM battery with twice the capacity.