Re: LRO: RE: Optima battery anyone? Good price

From: Frank Elson (frankelson@felson.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2001 - 15:23:25 EDT

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    OK, the time has come to ask the question.
     What are the differences between the colour tops on Optima?
    Best Cheers

    Frank
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Tom Rowe <trowe@attglobal.net>
    To: lro@works.team.net <lro@Works.Team.Net>
    Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 6:58 PM
    Subject: Re: LRO: RE: Optima battery anyone? Good price

    > On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 10:50:44 -0400, Tackley, John wrote:
    >
    > >I bought the genuine, original Optima Yellow top at a recent LR rally
    (Old
    > >North State's Uwharrie Safari) for $89 from 4X4 Connection, obviously a
    > >great price which also avoided shipping charges. We are attempting to
    round
    > >up vendors for ROAV's Mid Atlantic Rally October 5-7 and hopefully 4X4
    > >Connection will be one of them...good folks.
    > snip
    >
    > You may want to check into an Exide dealer coming. Looking at the two
    batteries, at
    > least the deep cycle seems nicer in the Exide version, 4 top posts plus
    two side posts.
    > The regular one, equiv to the Optima red top, has two top and two side
    posts.
    > I've never done a side by side comparison, just commenting on external
    features.
    > Cheers
    >
    > Tom Rowe
    > Atlanta, GA
    >
    > Four wheel drive allows you to get stuck
    > in places even more inaccessible
    >
    >



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