Optima Battery
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From: NorΩCal - East Bay
Have you ever had your battery load tested, ST? If you did, you might be buying that Platinum sooner than you think. 12V batteries don't often give a warning that they're going to fail, like a 6V commonly did. I have never had a 12V fail that gave me any warning at all. That's why I started load testing the batteries in all my vehicles about every 2-3 mo..
You can see it going down hill that way, that you'll likely never see from using starting as a criteria. You go to lunch 1 day and it starts great. You come back out to go back to work and it goes click, click. It didn't likely fail at that moment, it was likely failing for a long time (declining), but from starting you'd never know it. Just food for thought.
You can see it going down hill that way, that you'll likely never see from using starting as a criteria. You go to lunch 1 day and it starts great. You come back out to go back to work and it goes click, click. It didn't likely fail at that moment, it was likely failing for a long time (declining), but from starting you'd never know it. Just food for thought.
Anyway, your advice is appreciated!
