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1. [Tigers] Optima Batteries (score: 1)
Author: Tom Parker <tkparker1941@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:58:41 -0400
When I bought my Tiger, way back in the late seventies, it had already had a hard life. Besides body damage on the passenger side there was a huge hole in the boot floor, the result of a battery spil
/html/tigers/2013-04/msg00141.html (8,927 bytes)

2. Re: [Tigers] Optima Batteries (score: 1)
Author: Jay Laifman <jay.laifman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:27:22 -0700
While I don't disagree that I've heard the same, I've also heard that the quality went down for awhile there, which may or may not have been fixed. In my experience, the Optima batteries do weird thi
/html/tigers/2013-04/msg00142.html (10,691 bytes)

3. Re: [Tigers] Optima Batteries (score: 1)
Author: Chris Thompson <chris@cthompson.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:39:40 -0400
Optima and Interstate batteries are apples and oranges. I've had an Optima in my Tiger for over ten years, as well as in all my other classic cars. Not only do they not out-gas or spill causing corro
/html/tigers/2013-04/msg00143.html (11,013 bytes)

4. Re: [Tigers] Optima Batteries (score: 1)
Author: AAAGLASSS@aol.com
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:17:27 -0400 (EDT)
Optima and Interstate batteries are apples and oranges. I've had an Optima in my Tiger for over ten years, as well as in all my other classic cars. Not only do they not out-gas or spill causing corro
/html/tigers/2013-04/msg00144.html (10,872 bytes)

5. Re: [Tigers] Optima Batteries (score: 1)
Author: Gary Winblad <garywinblad@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:31:26 +0000 (UTC)
Optimas may work ok in an old car like a Tiger, but.. I put one in my 1999 Corvette that always has a small drain from the computers and stuff. I went on vacation for 2 weeks and when I got back not
/html/tigers/2013-04/msg00145.html (12,453 bytes)

6. Re: [Tigers] Optima Batteries (score: 1)
Author: Jay Laifman <jay.laifman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:33:53 -0700
Yeah, now that I think of it, when I said that they do weird things on chargers, I'd only have them on a charger if I had not been using the car for a while. So, perhaps it goes to the same issue. On
/html/tigers/2013-04/msg00146.html (14,576 bytes)

7. Re: [Tigers] Optima Batteries (score: 1)
Author: "Thomas Witt" <atwittsend@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:57:07 -0700
I have 8+ year old "hand me down" batteries on $5 (when on sale) Harbor Freight float chargers. Rarely are the cars started but these old batteries have yet to fail me. Lead acid batteries (gel or li
/html/tigers/2013-04/msg00148.html (9,132 bytes)

8. Re: [Tigers] Optima Batteries (score: 1)
Author: "Buck Trippel" <BuckTrippel@Verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:14:16 -0700
I've never had a problem recharging "low" Optimas in the ten plus years I've been using them with the old transformer type chargers. But the new smart electronic chargers sometimes balk. I've heard o
/html/tigers/2013-04/msg00149.html (13,313 bytes)


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