Haven't bought an Optima battery in a while, WOW.
 

I have one in both my vehicles, and the Monte needs a new one. Went to Autozone where I bought the last one, price now is about $80 more than the last one I bought. Wow.

Try Amazon. I bought one 2-weeks ago and they were $60+/- cheaper and had free shipping. I had it in 2-days

This - $146 from amazon with FREE 2 day shipping vs $198 from Autozone. Plus they had a promo going on in April where you got a free tender (99$) or %50 off their large battery charger ($199) for buying an Optima.

WIN!

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Buy an Odyssey battery, more bang for your buck!! :thumbsup:

If you buy from Amazon where do you send it if it goes south?

Bought my 2 from local Napa store....full replacement for 3 years...no pro-rate...price was in 170's...with some recent trouble with these...... the warranty sold me........jim

Bummer I missed out on that.

That's actually a pretty good question. BRB - doing research.

Edit: Theres a link on the Amazon Sale page called Details about your product warranty. But when I click it I get an error.

Bought a red top from Summit in Ga. 6 weeks ago at the retail store for $149.00, but I think it was on sale.

I've had my red top in the Chevelle for 6 weeks. I've driven the car twice and rolled the power windows up and down. This morning it shows 0.0 volts. Neat. It was sitting in the car disconnected. I'm irritated.

X2 on that statement. Far better battery!!

The Optima's really don't like to sit and not be used. Great battery but you can never let it go dead. Once it goes dead it never comes back the same. Gotta keep it charged, keep it on a trickle charger. Even if its not hooked up to anything. Iv'e gone through way too many!

Just had to buy another for my car,i let my last one go dead once too often.hope i have better luck than others.i have had one in my truck for 6 yrs .first thing i did when i got my new yellow top is hook it to charger .

I have heard way too many bad things about optima not lasting or having to buy another real soon. I drive my car once a week/ maybe twice. So it sits for about 5 days at a time. It has AC, and 1000watt stereo. I but autozone gold battery for about 120 with warranty and I've replaced it once every 5yrs and they have a good prorate system. IMHO it's just better cause the store is right there and it's cheap. Sure u pay for what u get but I doubt I would notice a difference from a more expensive battery.

I am waiting for my current optimas to eventually die. The old Optimas were an excellent product, but somehow the new prod ones in the lat years have been sub par. I have run red tops, yellow tops, in multiple cars, boats, sand rails, and other projects. Funny enough the couple I have from almost a decade ago survived well, and the newer ones died within a few years.

I took the last one (was pretty much new with little use - it still looked brand new), to the Optima truck at Good Guys hoping they would be able to resuscitate it but no luck :(

Best recommendation here is to trickle charge and run the batteries frequently, no matter whichever one you buy.

Kreigh