# Optima batteries

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/optima-batteries/201189>\
**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [December 22, 2008, 9:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/optima-batteries/201189 "2008-12-22T09:18:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![GreekPower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9fc29f/32.png) [@GreekPower](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GreekPower)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 11:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/optima-batteries/201189/21 "2008-12-23T23:44:49Z")

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I ran a kinetik hc2000 for about a week it was better then my optima redtop with 1000CA.

You could buy mine and blow any optimas out of the water 😉

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**Author:** ![MONTE\_SS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MONTE\_SS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MONTE_SS)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 8:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/optima-batteries/201189/22 "2008-12-29T08:17:36Z")

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walmart battery in he sonata, red top in the monte ss, no problems, still has a a charge sitting in the garage for 3 weeks unstarted in the cold weather… idk

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**Author:** ![foz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/foz/32/6028_2.png) [@foz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/foz)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 10:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/optima-batteries/201189/23 "2008-12-29T10:49:16Z")

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The yellow top that is in my DD right now, has a little history… all good. It started in a customer’s Lincoln Navigator, we pulled the system and he didn’t have room for the extra battery in his next car… said I could have it. So it sat on a shelf for a few years, then I threw it into the old Grand Cherokee for a while. then it sat for a while… dead on the shled so I trickle charged it and put it in a 98 Prelude for a few months. then it sat on a shelf for a few months. Then into my Old Taurus for about a year (however long I owned it) then it went into my Lincoln LS for over a year (again however long I owned it) and has been in my Dodge ever since… never a problem.

Now the “honda-sized” optimas… they never lasted a winter while the Del Sol was parked. but I also usually forgot to disconnect the battery thinking I was going to take it out again next weekend…

I don’t think I would pay the extra money though, if I didn’t have a system in the car.

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