Can you be more specific?

 

Napa went with Optima since May of this year. Some stores might have them left over but doubt it can't remember if we had to send ours back.

 

On the Corvette forum I have read posts about optima's going dead. Never heard a bad word about Orbital. I have had mine three years so far.

 

Name two.

Everybody that I know that has switched to an optima has loved it. As long as you get the proper physical size for the application I have not heard of a problem.

 

I sold industrial forklift and UPS batteries, sealed or known as AGM do not vent, as 4 % of cubic volume of hydrogen is explosive, SEARS AGM batteries state a 2 years shelf life.

 

you could not give an EXIDE battery i sold EXIDE forklift batteries for 13 and a half years they bought GNB which i worked for over 8 years sold nothing but the AGM forklift batteries then EXIDE bought GNB cheapened the battery line.

 

I can't name two but I can definitely name one.

I HAD an Optima battery in my Bronco. The first one had a cell go bad after less than a year. A week after I had been nearly 100 miles from the nearest paved road it didn't even have enough to operate the starter, that would've really sucked clear out there in one of the most remote places in the lower 48 states. It was replaced with another Optima battery under warranty. The replacement battery after about a year and a half would not even hold a charge for 3 days. That was the last Optima battery I will ever have in anything. I'm sure that there will be a billion excuses for the Optima's but they were treated no differently than any other batteries that were/are in that vehicle and all of those lasted at least 5 years before there was any problem with them, even then they would start the vehicle before they were replaced, most of that time in Denver, CO. In both cases the problem appeared very suddenly, essentially overnight, never had that issue before.

Now you only need one more to meet your conditions.

 

Before retiring I had worked for GNB Industral batteries at one time they sold the Optima under the GNB label was made in S. Africa a sub. of Gates Rubber.

 

The reality is I where I used to work we saw bad batteries from everyone at some point. I has issues with Delco, Exide, Interstate, DieHard etc. They all have problems from time to time but over all it is rare for any of them. I deal with several battery companies now and can't say a bad thing about any of them.

The big issue with Optima is if they go really dead you need to charge them a little different or you will never get a charge back into them. Nothing wrong with the battery but just the way the owner tried to charge it. They have the way you need to charge on the web site.

 

in reading the HHR factory manuals it states the dealer in load testing AGM batteries they must change the rateing as the AGM battery will have a higher voltage and their test equip. may show the battery to need to be replaced which is a false reading.