startinghandle
Member
i am thinking of buying an optima battery for my old Dexta tractor because they are outlast an ordinary battery but for the priviledge I will have to pay at least 50% more
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are optima batteries worth the extra cost?
- Thread starter startinghandle
- Start date
- Location
- Herefordshire
Yes, we have had one on Mf 230 for last 11 years, I'd buy another
Tonym
Member
- Location
- Shropshire
I had one once never again. Complete waste of money. Did not last as long as a cheap ordinary battery.
Pilgrimmick
Member
- Location
- Argyll
There you have it! The balanced views of TFF.
Glad to be of help!
Glad to be of help!
- Location
- East Riding of Yorkshire
Yes definitely worth the extra money!
Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
Check the size of the battery. When I last looks Optima batteries couldn’t start a large diesel. They seemed to only output car power.
- Location
- Oxon
A decent starter motor is very underrated
A normal battery is fine if the rest of the system is right. Just fix it
A normal battery is fine if the rest of the system is right. Just fix it
im with Ace, a valid point, even a good battery dosent necessarily fix a hard to start engine...........
i had a optima battery when they came out, like today it was well over twice the price of a good battery.
i used it in the back of the van for all kinds of jobs, bought it because it was a dry battery for lugging about and that it could take a fair bit of stick for a battery, and it did.
i didnt buy another one when it died but i quit the van work not long after so it could of been that too.
tbh unless you really need one for a specific job the cost is hard to justify, if you sourced a silver top varta battery of the right size ( the one below id be close but best to measure to be sure to be sure..) it would be imo about the best brand of battery out there at not too much above the normal price.
having a look at optima's best offering its behind the varta it would seem, 25Ah to be exact, your not tied to a Ah rating on a dexta so the 100Ah of the varta in the link ill run a longer race than a 75 one.
iirc mine was about long enough and then it sat up for a year or so, when i went back to it had checked out.
like the rest of the lads, i can only give you my own experience of one and by all means buy one if youd like to but if it was me id be going for the varta.
i took a 11 yr old one out of a jd here last year, theres another varta in her.
https://www.varta-automotive.com/en-gb/products/varta-silver-dynamic/600-402-083
https://www.optimabatteries.com/en-us/yellowtop-deep-cycle-battery/d31a
i had a optima battery when they came out, like today it was well over twice the price of a good battery.
i used it in the back of the van for all kinds of jobs, bought it because it was a dry battery for lugging about and that it could take a fair bit of stick for a battery, and it did.
i didnt buy another one when it died but i quit the van work not long after so it could of been that too.
tbh unless you really need one for a specific job the cost is hard to justify, if you sourced a silver top varta battery of the right size ( the one below id be close but best to measure to be sure to be sure..) it would be imo about the best brand of battery out there at not too much above the normal price.
having a look at optima's best offering its behind the varta it would seem, 25Ah to be exact, your not tied to a Ah rating on a dexta so the 100Ah of the varta in the link ill run a longer race than a 75 one.
iirc mine was about long enough and then it sat up for a year or so, when i went back to it had checked out.
like the rest of the lads, i can only give you my own experience of one and by all means buy one if youd like to but if it was me id be going for the varta.
i took a 11 yr old one out of a jd here last year, theres another varta in her.
https://www.varta-automotive.com/en-gb/products/varta-silver-dynamic/600-402-083
https://www.optimabatteries.com/en-us/yellowtop-deep-cycle-battery/d31a
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