Reviews of OPTIMA battery

I do have a Yellow top Optima battery in my VW Jetta MKV 2007 and I just had one problem a little time ago since one of the terminals needed to be tight again... but that's pretty much it, it works just fine.

For the price you pay if you aren't using the car daily, it is a waste of money. I've been through 3 of them now, 2 of which I replaced within there crappy 1 year replacement period.

But the battery's been fine. I got a Redtop after the factory battery died, then that Redtop eventually did wear out. So I got an Interstate, and it didn't stay the whole winter before getting shuffled into the Cabby or something that was summer duty/easy to start. I got another Redtop for the bug then and it's been fine.

I've had very good results with mine, and I just get whatever would fit a New Beetle TDI. NBs take a reverse terminal battery and it's nice and compact.

I've had to return 3 Red Top's prior to their 1 year warranty for replacements. Only 1 of the 3 replacements is still installed, the other 2 have gone bad and have been replaced with generic O'Reilly's batteries, which i've had much better luck with.

Although now I run an Optima Redtop that doesn't need to vent.

always a safe bet to get a good optima battery, i drained my cheapo oem battery several times before i became fed up with it. optima has help up great

I had numerous Optima batteries in my car for about 12 years and the only reason I kept going with them was because they replaced it under warranty every time they went bad.

I've owned a red top for the last two years which I know is not very long but haven't had any problems either.

I have had an optima for my Jeep Wrangler for close to 3 years. Never any problems. I have left the lights on a few times too draining the battery... never any problems after recharging either... not sure why everybody hates them.