Customer Reviews

Optima Batteries 8002-002 34 RedTop Starting Battery

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Great for vehicles that sit. Discharge rate is a fraction of a regular lead acid battery.

I bought the red top in July, 2009, for a kit car I am building. Just got around to installing in car and find it will not hold a charge. Contacted Optima for their help under their 3 year free replacement (also shown on Amazon web page) guarantee. Optima says Amazon is not an authorized seller of their products (even though there are thousands of their batteries listed on Amazon), and they could not do anything for me. Amazon says the battery cannot be returned to them or replaced. What do you think is going on here? Smells like fraud on someone's part to me. Was promised a call back from an Amazon supervisor, but nothing yet.

Update, after discussions with two customer service reps. and a supervisor, Amazon has agreed to honor the warranty from Optima. They will reimburse me the cost of the battery and I can then order another one. Not sure why they could not just send me a replacement. But, I am getting another one, and that is all I wanted.

In 1985 I purchased a new ford F150 truck. In 1987 I replaced the battery with a OPTIMA RED TOP BATTERY. TODAY IT IS 2009 AND I HAVE 582 THOUSAND MILES ON THE TRUCK AND THE RED TOP OPTIMA BATTERY.IT HAS BEEN 12 YEARS NOW AND THAT IS UNHEARD OF FOR A BATTERY TO LAST THAT LONG. I WAS A POLICE FLEET MANAGER FOR A LARGE CITY AND WE USED UP FACTORY BATTERIES RIGHT AND LEFT , WE SWITCHED TO THE OPTIMA BRANDS AND THEY OUTLASTED THE POLICE VEHICLES WE TRADED IN. I TALKED TO THE PERSON THAT DEVELOPED THE OPTIMA BATTERY , HE WAS A RETIRED NASA ENGINEER!

The Optima Battery is the best battery to buy if you want to make sure there is no corrosion or leakage.

I have used Optima batteries for years in my cars, trucks and in my rock crawler and they are amazing. They out last everything else and the one I replaced this one with lasted for 7 years. I will never use anything else and Amazon did a great job getting it shipped very fast.

PURCHASED THE OPTIMA BATTERY BECAUSE OF THE GREAT REVIEWS. AMAZON PRICE WAS ABOUT 40 TO 50 DOLLARS CHEAPER THAN I COULD GET IN TOWN, PLUS NO TAX. PREVIOUSLY HAD TWO DURALAST GOLD BATTERIES THAT LASTED LESS THAN A YEAR WITH MY 7.3 DIESEL ENGINE. ID RATHER SPEND A LITTLE MORE $$ THAN DEAL WITH THE AGGRAVATION OF BEING STRANDED SOMEWHERE. LETS HOPE THESE BATTERIES LIVE UP TO THEIR REPUTATION.

My old red-top only lasted 9 years in my rig so I'd say Optima has done there homework on producing a great battery. Here's to another 9 years.

I bought these batteries for a 2004 Dodge truck with the Diesel engine. One of the stock batteries split open at the negative post. The other was about to split. Both stock batteries were leaking acid. I bought the Optima batteries based on my experience with never having one leak acid, break, or clean corrosion around the post. The new Optima batteries are working fine, will see how they do five years from now.

Thanks,

Adonis

Just replaced this same battery after many years of service. Used solely for starting a large marine diesel engine that got irregular use. Battery was in the boat winter and summer for 13 years, but was charged monthly. Great product!

Optima batteries are great. I own 5 (two blue tops in the boat, two yellow tops in the truck, and now the red top in my car). I went through 3 batteries (not Optima) in 6 years in the car. During the same time the boat and truck are still on the same Optimas. I also previously bought a truck with a red-top already installed and it never had a problem starting for the 4 years that I owned it. It is well worth the extra $$ over the standard battery brands.