Posted by Owen Aaland on October 29, 2008 at 11:08:19 from (65.161.86.88):
In Reply to: battery drains dead posted by mkirsch on October 29, 2008 at 05:37:01:
mkirsch said: (quoted from post at 05:37:01 10/29/08)
I've heard from people that have them that the Optimas are overpriced garbage. They claim to be rough tough indestructable batteries, but won't take vibration and short internally and go dead at the drop of a hat.
Your mileage may vary, but when I was servicing trucks that used a group 24 side post battery the Optima's were the only battery I found that would last more than a year. After replacing the original battery at about eleven months, I only had one Optima fail before trucks were taken out of service after about four more years of service. This covered about twenty trucks in service from the mid 80's to the mid 90's.
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