300 M Battery Replacement?

(dummy post to fool news server into doing what it thinks is a double
post but really isn't - don't ask - and no wise cracks)

 

You're not breaking anything to me - I'm the guy where I work that
replaces the batteries in the UPS's when they fail - and - yes - they
certainly do fail with some degree of predictability. Totally different
application with totally different operating conditions (my guess is the
99.9%-of-the-time charge mode dries them out - cars don't see that).
That's comparing apples and oranges. That would be like me saying that
wet batteries are not good because they don't use them in the your
UPS's. Different application - different requirements.

"Diesel engines can't be any good because you never see them used in
airplanes."

I'm still waiting to hear of failed Optimas (in automobiles) besides the
one post I saw in years of reading several news groups.

For a wet battery - yes - 10 years is a very long time.

Yes - keep reading.

What you appear to have missed was where I said: "I can say that I would
very likely have replaced my original battery with a good AGM battery
had it not been as difficult to get to. I bought the Optima
specifically based on the 10+ year expectation - not that it's that big
of a deal to replace it, but I wanted it to be the last battery I'd buy
for that particular car. All my other cars get convenional batteries put
back in them when they go bad (and they do go bad - which, again, I
can't say about the Optima)."

Nowhere did I say that everyone ought to go out and buy an Optima
battery. I said that I saw the value for my particular (as you
correctly put it) ass-backwards car, but that conventional batteries go
into all my other cars.

I agree: $120 is a lot to pay for a battery.

We're in violent agreement.

Bill Putney
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