Battery OPTIMA or Energizer

Agreed with others, weigh your usage and environment/climate into the equation. We will personally be replacing ours with a deep discharge battery like the Optima Yellow, since I've noticed that of recent we've been running a lot quick errands that involve one person running in while everyone else hangs out in the car with A/C on.

I bought a red top used off craigslist over 3years ago and it's still great.

A few months ago I replaced the autozone battery with an optima red top. I've left the lights on twice for over half the day and the car still started right up. I'm really impressed with how strong the red top cranks.

I use Red top Optima batteries in all my cars, I truly hate flooded lead acid batteries as they will leak at sometime in their life.

I run a Optima yellow top as well, but mine fits in just like stock.

I have an optima yellow top in mine.

I had an Optima I took out of my Crew Cab Dually, probably two years old (used for my car stereo). It sat in my garage for a year. Then I needed a battery for my 1/2 ton truck. I charged the Optima and installed it. I ran it for three years without problems. Sold the truck with the battery still in it.

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.

Optima is not what it used to be. Total and utter crap.

Every optima battery I have seen in customer vehicles (I'm an auto tech) goes to crap in about 6 months to a year. I think these types of batteries are more sensitive to low voltages. They also don't hold up at all during the freezing winter months.