Optima Battery?

[Battery expert 2023]

I am just curious what everyone thinks of the Optima Batteries and what is the difference between the red and yellow?

 

[Coolhand20th]

I've seen them cut in half so many times and you are better off with a name brand store AGM or an Odyssey or XS Power. At this point you are paying for a name nothing more.

When Optima first came out in the '90s they were a good battery. Since they got sold off a couple times eh nothing special about them anymore.

I know one person who disagrees on them being junk here but after seeing them cut in half and being promoted by their sales reps when I used to manage auto parts stores, I saw the same or worse components in the cheap AGM's we or other store sold only Optima wanted 300-400 bucks for them vs the 150 bucks for the store brand.

There is only 4-5 battery companies worldwide. You might be surprised at who makes what these days.

 

[dragon.breath]

Johnson controls makes Optima batteries now. They also make most of the auto parts store and chain store brands. You will be just as well off getting something like a Duralast platinum agm from Autozone ( also made by Johnson controls ).