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ZUKIWORLD Discussion Forum => Suzuki 4x4 Forum => Topic started by: Alaska101 on January 25, 2004, 03:44:56 PM
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Just picked up a new red top at a great deal.
$118.00 canadian
Anyone have good or bad luck with them?
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We've run Optimas for years. They work great. I currently have a yellow-top in the Kick, and have done a few things like leave the radio on for a really long time while I am working around it, or leave the dome light on all day. Still starts and runs like a champ. Plus all my radio (sing song and chit chat) gear doesn't bog anything down.
We've had them in past rigs with pretty big stereo setups, and go-go juice for the CBs, and they never fail us, and never leave us stranded.
Optimas are worth the money.
Heather
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I'm running a Yellow top too. Plenty of juice and I couldn't be bothered fitting dual batteries. ;D
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::) Someday when my $35 Costco battery
dies I'll get an Optima, but I've only had
it for 5 years and it just won't die :P
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I heard that the new one's are not as good as the old one's :-/ but maybe they will fix that if they get too many returns, just keep your invoice for it in the glove box ::) mine are y2k and older and all five of them are great so far 8) don't let them get below 12.2 volts you will be ok. Dennis.
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i have a yellow top and it works great. once a alternator died and i drove home from the islands all the way home on it. i love it.
Stu
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Had an Optima yellow top. It died 24 days after the full replacement warranty ran out. Didn't buy another one.
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I run 2 red tops in my sami and I think there great. Always cranks fast even in the coldest conditions. I have the one on the driver side on an isolator so when key is off so is that battery. This way even if I leave something on I'll still have the fresh battery to start the truck.
A couple of months ago the ring terminal on my GM alternator broke and I didn't realize it til 4 nights later when my lights started to go noticeably dim. I still made it home.
Another nice feature is when you roll your rig the acid doesn't go all over the engine bay. :D
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Thanx for the replies!
Just put it in today works thats a start ( hehe battery joke, well almost) Looks good i guess on only time will tell.
Costco had them on sell
red top $118.00
yellow $165.00
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I love mine. Ive had a red top for several years. I run it dead around the campfire (sterio) many times a year. When the sterio stops working oddly enough the tracker will still start. :-* Gotta love em. ;)
Mike
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That's like when my Alternator died,
I was driving home and the radio
quit, and shut off, but the trucklet
kept on going, I was amazed :o
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How about those new procomp batteries, has anyone used one of these yet, what is the best optima for the 95 track, lsi, I will soon have a whinch?
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They are all the same physical size. The yellow top is the most amperage if I'm not mastaken.
I have a red top my self. I had a realy long winch pull (helping out another guy) and the altinator couldn't keep up. I drained it down to the point the winch stopped. The truck never died, so I move out of the way and let another take over with their winch.
Maby a yellow would have helped????
Other than that I've had great luck with mine. I've also had an altinator insident and my bat just got me home. :P