gah, dead battery...

[Arts_1_8t]

had the radio (stock) on while i was washing the car, finished drying the car, jumped in to start the car and the car went click, click, click, click, click...damnit dead battery!!! turned off the radio and all the interior lights, went click, click, click, and then clock reseted to 12:00 and the trip went to zero...dead battery, ugh...went to costco, 47$ for a new battery, the optima's cost about 100$ but not sure which one i should get, the yellow or red top ones? anyways, i had to replace the stock battery, about 3 years old now. oh well. i have a kirkland series battery...should last me about 4-5 years? lol...just wanted to share. anybody know if i can still recharge this battery or get it reconditioned?

[SELFatvi]

get a trickle charger and find out, starting about $30 with a simple green/red light on it.

Red Top is the way to go.

[sikaltima]

yea actually my dads kirkland battery died on him a couple days ago after having it for only about 3 months...went back and they gave him his money back and got a red top

[paultakeda]

Optima 34R Red Top, reverse post. I just put one in the NB a couple of weeks ago.

I spent the little extra, now I don't have to worry about the damned thing for the next ten years.

The stock battery lasted 4.5 years.

[PWRPUFF]

get a trickle charger and find out, starting about $30 with a simple green/red light on it.
Trickle charger only helps if it's close to full. It won't recharge a fully drained battery.

Get one of the Vector (or manufactured by them) 'smart' battery chargers. Something about high frequency charging and processor controlled (so says them), but the fact that it revived five old batteries in the past year that the Sears charger couldn't revive, it was well worth the $40. The five included a Duralast manufactured 2000 (sat for 8 months without being used), a Toyota OEM from 2000 (freebie), a Pep Boys from 2000 (from a parts car), a Volvo OEM from 1998 (low reserve time), and an AC Delco from 1996 (old, and definitely thought for dead!). All of them load tested good afterwards.

Another option is to just take it into Autozone for them to check/recharge for free. They will load test it afterwards too, to verify whether it's reasonably close to spec or not. Their Duralast lineup has been fine for me.

-- Kane

[SoCal_Dubber]

how much did you pay for the optima.....i have someone that can get them for about 80 bucks if that is a good price

[paultakeda]

I paid $130 including tax. I was in a rush and they were the closest shop. Convenience trumped frugalness this time around.

[Arts_1_8t]

thanks guys for the info!

[SoCal_Dubber]

well if anyone is in need of optima's...i have a sort of hook up that i can get some batteries from.....like i said....i can get the optima red for about 80 bucks....well let me know what you think...


hit me up if you are in need

[paultakeda]

Remember, it needs to be Optima Red Reverse Post (34R), formerly the Optima Orange.

[SoCal_Dubber]

they have all the optima's in the whse. i just talked to him and they are getting a bunch of stock in next week as well.....

[RavinJetta]

I got my red top at costco for 99 not including tax. Only bad thing was the first optima I picked up was a dud but all is good now.