Battery OPTIMA or Duralast

When I replace mine I went with the Optima Yellow Top. Seems to be hanging in there 6 years later.

I've never had a problem with one

I had a couple of Optimas back in the early 00’s that I took from truck to truck to truck. I had a couple of them for about 10 years. they used to be nearly indestructible.

My 09 yellow top just bit the dust. I was able to get it charged back above 13v but it's so old I didn't want to risk it with winter coming.

Got my yellow top in my 2000 subaru forester still going good 4 years up north where it gets cold

My old Celica was at 11 years of daily on a Yellow Top, including at least 3x when it sat to dead and recharged just fine. When I got a new car and stopped driving it, it only lasted another 6 months of infrequent driving after that.

I replaced it with an Optima Yellow top battery. It lasted just shy of 3 years. Replaced it in July with another Yellow Top under warranty.

20 years ago optima was good. Now its 300 dollars for a 50 dollar battery. Used to get them super cheap as a jci employee and they would last made in Colorado but the quality control has been gone for decades.

Yes it's overkill if you don't need it. Standard batteries are perfectly fine for 99% of use cases

It literally is of 0 benefit and in fact they have shown to have a shorter lifetime in these applications.