Optima battery stinks in the cold
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From: Windsor, Ont.
we'll see come spring what my battery will do, I am pumped to finish the car and probably won't give it time to die out anyways. Since it will have a bit of a system in it, I was advised a yellow top, sounds good to me.
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From: Wichita KS
Originally Posted by BLUE20004X4
Ordinarily, red tops fire up fine. Let them sit even the least little bit, they're dead. A little cold, dead. I don't know why. My bro has or had one in his daily driver, no problems unless it sits for a week. Same on his stang, since it gets started every week, each time it's like on the verge of drained. I'm planning on a yellow top in my old car to see wtf is all the hype about.
A year or so back I had a problem with my headrest monitors draining the battery since I didn't wire the switched power to a switched source. They wasn't on all the time but they still pulled too much juice and would drain the battery over night. Then this started happening now the weather went bad.
Right now I'm thinking maybe I've taxed the battery too much and it's not keeping a charge. I mean, if I blast the stereo and hit the offroad lights I can see serious drain happening. I do use the offroad lights a lot too. I wonder if these batteries have a memory then?
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Originally Posted by ThumperMX113
I'd really try to get a Yellowtop to see if that fixes your problem. Otherwise you might need to start using two batteries.
Yea then I'd be like Styx
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Man, impact... you honestly have the baddest f-150 i've ever seen... show trucks are nice and all but your truck is just an original bad *** truck... your truck just says "GET THE **** OUT MY WAY" all over it... i hope to get my truck to look like that one day... slowly but surly
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From: St. Charles, MO
Originally Posted by PSS-Mag
I know it gets cold in Ohio, but does it really get that cold? 
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From: Vernon, NY
Originally Posted by Zaairman
My guess is that he ran that Red Top down really low once. Run a Red Top downonce, and its toast.
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From: Lost some where in the middle of the Ozark Mountains!
Originally Posted by Zaairman
My guess is that he ran that Red Top down really low once. Run a Red Top downonce, and its toast.
