Another Delco dies...
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Another Delco dies... I am now in the Optima club. 70k miles and had a cell open up on me. It was three time harder swapping it out than installing adjustible rockers. Forever to get the old one out with two people. New one dropped in easy though. Not a job I wanna do ever again.
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Chuckling...I actually threw the stocker on the ground after it was out, getting it past the fusebox (and over the bent tie-down mount, twisted up like a pretzel while trying to remove the tie-down) was, shall we say; sucky. Redtop, #35. 50% more cold cranking amps. 'nough said.
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10 minutes....i wish that is all i wrestled with mine for!!! Once i used a cord to pull back the fuse box...it finally worked out....i had to settle for an off the shelf battery though...parts store did not have a red top in.. :-(
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Well, since my experience is that these things keep outlasting my cars and going into the next one (or in one case, my mother's car and in another, still working fine after 9 years), I would humbly suggest that it is not the Optima that is the problem, but your Mustang if it has eaten 4 of them. Of course, unless you bought the car with one already in there, it ate at least one non-Optima battery first as well....
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I've had optima red top in 5 of my cars and only had 1 bad experience...in the wife g6 I put my old red top in from my 04 IMP LS,and no probs...I had tv's,hid's,system and the battery is almost as old as my son(3yr),and I let the g6 sit for a week like my imp did and it started like nothing,probably had a bad one in my SS...
Yellow top now
Yellow top now
It wasn't TOO bad. But definitely a PITA. After unbolting the diagnonal brace and fuse box, I just manhandled it out. But it sill frustrated me enough to do this to the OE battery
True story
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Well, since my experience is that these things keep outlasting my cars and going into the next one (or in one case, my mother's car and in another, still working fine after 9 years), I would humbly suggest that it is not the Optima that is the problem, but your Mustang if it has eaten 4 of them. Of course, unless you bought the car with one already in there, it ate at least one non-Optima battery first as well....
today i went to start my car and turned the key and it didnt turn over....the speedometer kept goin from 0 to 160 along with the fuel gauge and rpms....there was a clicking sound that was coming from the passenger side of the dash too....put some jumper cables on it and it started up....i had to move it later on and when i turned the key it didnt start up like it normally does...took a lil longer...my car has 12,500 miles so would this be a bad battery?
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today i went to start my car and turned the key and it didnt turn over....the speedometer kept goin from 0 to 160 along with the fuel gauge and rpms....there was a clicking sound that was coming from the passenger side of the dash too....put some jumper cables on it and it started up....i had to move it later on and when i turned the key it didnt start up like it normally does...took a lil longer...my car has 12,500 miles so would this be a bad battery?