Reply to "Optima Battery Life in a Pantera"

joules"Racing is Life, anything before or after is just waiting" - Steve McQueen

Tonight I returned a Red top Optima out of the GT5 to Summit Racing; 14 months old and dead as a dodo. I drove a round trip of 350 miles to Mike Drew's last Sunday and isolated the battery with the disconnect all week, tonight it wouldn't even 'click' the starter.

Interestingly when I turned up at Summit the counter guy said "oh no, not another, that's the third one today" we got talking and apparently these things are coming back quicker than going out. Summit were good enough to give me a full $$ credit so I could buy another battery and start the 3 yr warranty cycle again. Apparently Optima are now only pro-rating the 3 yr warranty from original purchase date, which tells me they know they have an issue.

I also took the oportunity to pick up a couple more battery tenders as the CTEK US 3300 intelligent charger is on special at the moment for $56.65.

Julian

7/17/0910:17 PM

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