Anybody has it? How much you guys got yours and where? I think I got a very good price for it.

Optima yellow top
D35
$135 (w/ tax everything out the door brand new)
Bayland Batteries @ San Jose downtown

 

buy it for that price.

watch out though, it has 1 less year of warranty than the regular red top...

 

i got mine from pepboys. I forget what I got it for though. It was more than $135 though, that is a good deal

 

I have two of them both still working strong, one is now over 5 years old, the other about 3.

I'm pretty sure I paid more than that for each

 

lol... i killed mine during a winch-fest a few years ago...

 

OK so that might be pushing it a bit, for more normal loads- even a rack of lights and pumpin' stereo they do the trick pretty well.

winch-fest......

 

think 10-15 minutes of winching a poor SOB out of a steep mud pit. we had 2 other vehicles that tried to winch this gigantic ford F-350...

2 jeeps were pulling at the same time and they were being dragged towards him.

another toyota and i took their place and did some careful placing of logs. it took a while. couldnt even touch the winch body afterwards...

 

I figured it was something like that, I bet the battery was almost as hot as the winch too.

Probably melted the lead off the mats inside it.

Did that just kill it dead?

 

no, it took bad maintenance on my part of running it down and deep cycling it a couple months afterwards that killed it...

but i assumed the winchfest started the death.

then i learned that it doesnt have as much warranty as a red topper...

 

anyway back to topic, yea i got it and very happy for it. looked around i think pepboys is selling redtop for 129.99+tax and yellow for around 169.99+tax

 

careful, though, getting warrantied for it.

i got my replacement red topper from pep boys for $130. and when it was dying (i think it has a bad cell), they replaced with no questions asked...

 

How long did it last before it started dying on you? It's just for some reason i had a hard time looking for a pepboys that have 35 model in stock. i went to pepboys in sunnyvale by elcamino, near by capitol in san jose, called the one is stevens creek, and in fremont by stevenson. They all didn't have it in stock, they said it has to be ordered takes about a week.

 

the yellows are are like 2 years.

red are 3 years.

my yellow one died like 2.5 years...

that's why i was surprised to learn about the 1 year less warranty as the red one.

btw, why the yellow? do you know the characteristics of the yellow? vs the red and the blue?

 

i went with yellow top because it's what they recomended. i run 1000watts amp on my 2 10' solos in my trunk so it helped alot on my system. plus it's suppose to be a little bit better than redtops' which doesnt have a deep cycle capabilities.
you can find out more info in optimabatteries.com

plus i got it for the price of redtop q= )

 

i'm back to a red top these days in the truck.

unless you are listening to your radio without the engine running, deep cycle property is something you may not need...

btw, you didnt keep the old battery did ya?

i need an old one to return to i can get a deposit on a batt i bought (way diff application though)...