Did you guys notice the car cranks up faster? I'm not sure if it was because my stock battery literally had the life sucked dry from it, but I can't recall the car ever cranking so fast.

 

Mine didn't seem to crank faster, although my starter was going out at the time I upgraded to one, so that might have been a problem

 

no noticable crank change here

 

Just installed my Optima Yellow Top a few days ago, and YES...there is a difference. The car starts a lot faster now. When I start it, the tachometer jumps to 1 really fast.

-Nick

 

yes.... huge difference between the stock battery and the Yellow Top

 

It just cranks right over. I definately noticed a difference.

 

Don't have a yellow top. But when I installed my Holley Annihilator race battery, the car cranked a whole lot faster than with the stock battery.

 

I just wanted to make sure I don't have a funky battery. Everything has improved with this cure-all battery...no more slow power windows, power antenna, and worry-free starts. I had about 50K miles on my 97 stock battery. I started recharging it, but I could tell it couldn't hold the charge and was going to die soon. I totally love my yellow top; no regrets.

Oh yeah, does anyone know how long these optimas should last?

 

The Yellow top I've been using has lasted two years under rather severe useage. Using a friend's original Red top as a benchmark, it should last you well over six years with hard use, including several jump starts from his forgetting to turn his lights off, running his stereo without the motor on, etc...

The Optima was so dead it couldn't even turn on his dome light, and it jump-started right away. Most normal car batteries would probably not have survived a drain like that, but the Red top recharged and has been working fine ever since. His battery has outlasted two cars and is going on it's seventh year.

Hope this helps,

Quack2x

 

The Yellow top I've been using has lasted two years under rather severe useage. Using a friend's original Red top as a benchmark, it should last you well over six years with hard use, including several jump starts from his forgetting to turn his lights off, running his stereo without the motor on, etc...

The Optima was so dead it couldn't even turn on his dome light, and it jump-started right away. Most normal car batteries would probably not have survived a drain like that, but the Red top recharged and has been working fine ever since. His battery has outlasted two cars and is going on it's seventh year.

Hope this helps,

Quack2x

 

hey is it possible to use a blue top as my main batterie a yellow top
wouldnt macth my blue accents in the motor. sorry had to
use a new smiley!

 

heh...

don't see why not, if you are willing to spend the extra money for the Blue top, or really need deep-cycle marine battery.

If money is a factor, and you weren't running a lot of equipment that put a large drain on your system, you would be just as well off with a Red top (Costco, $99.99) and painting it to match.

hope this helps,

Quack2x

 

painting a batterie?the things we do just to have perfection.
anyone wanna tell me the technique of painting a batterie lol.

 

well i didn't get the yellow top i got the red top battery
because 2 people told me that the yellow isn't to be used as a main
battery

 

The only difference between yellow and blue top is that the blue top has terminal with thread on them.

Anton