I had an Optima red top in my TR-4 race car when I bought it in
2002. Not sure how long it had been there, but it's very safe to
assume it wasn't new. I replaced it in 2009, "just because". This
car gets driven 5 or 6 times a year and the battery sits on a battery
tender otherwise. I found that I had been running for a year or two
with my alternator wired incorrectly, so it was not charging properly
at the track and I made it through each weekend without any need for
charging. It was by pure accident that I discovered that I had
miswired the alternator to turn it into a "single wire" setup.
Count me a happy customer.
Tony Drews
At 06:28 PM 8/24/2010, Darrell Walker wrote:
>Unfortunately, I don't get to drive my TR very often these days. Even though
>I have a "battery tender", I only seem to get a two or three years from a
>battery, which ends up being about every other time I can take it out!
>
>Anyway, would an Optima perform better for me? Even if it didn't last the 3-4
>times longer that it would need to pay off (vs. buying a cheap battery every
>two years or so), if I could expect it to last twice as long, I might be
>interested for the convenience of not having to get a new battery every time I
>drive!
>
>--
>Darrell Walker
>66 TR4A IRS CTC67956L
>Vancouver, WA, USA
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