Is the Optima Yellow Top a good batt?

overall, i would say yes, but there have been exceptions reported here.

 

I put a Duralast from Autozone in our 2010 at the beginning of this year and after rebates it was ~$150:



It has performed well for the 6 months it has been in service .

While sitting, I would keep the car in ready and not drain the 12 volt. Might be worse on mpg, but better on the other components.

 

‘Cause it was cheaper than an Optima and a dealer battery.

It’s a drop in replacement and works well.

Cost effective solution .

 

you won't find much under $200. and most are fairly recent, so hard to gauge longevity.

agree with ray. compare specs and price of oem, duralast, optima, exide and duracell. go with cost effectiveness i guess, haven't heard much negative.

 

People here said to @Raytheeagle that the battery was an over kill. The additional amperage allows you to run auxiliary devices longer as one of the few benefits.

 

oem or better, but i would have to research. it's just cca i think. optima calls theirs deep discharge, which the oem can't handle well.

 

Yes, MANY people have that kind of trouble with a battery over 5 years old. Yours might be 8.

And....as long as you have the car "running" while you are sitting still there won't be any extra strain on the battery and there is no need to obsess over having a "heavy duty" one.

 

Conventional AGM such as @Raytheeagle 's might be better choice, closer in specs to the OEM Yuasa. The Optima Yellow Top has higher Cold Cranking Amps but lower amp hours, which supposedly NOT what's needed. The higher CCA come with more and thinner plates, maybe more vulnerable. I think it was @ChapmanF tried to explain it to me.

I have the Optima btw.

 

I tried to not overthink it.

If the battery was within the defined model, I evaluated it for cost. The OEM lasted 8.5 years, so it had a good run, so I started with the Toyota dealers. But their prices were anywhere from $208 all the way up to $279 for a replacement 12 volt .

Then began checking at Batteries Plus Bulbs, auto zone, oreillys, etc and found the Duralast to be the most cost effective.

Just did my homework on pricing before I purchased.

Should last the remainder of time we own our 2010.

 

keeps the battery from exploding inside your cabin.

 

I've got Optima Yellow top in both of our Prius vehicles and they are performing great!

 

it's actually the other way around. the prius 12v only boots up the computers and closes some relays, it does not crank the engine. so it is small, to fit in the little space in the back. (on gen4, toyota found a way to fit it under the hood)
so, being an odd size, and requiring more safety measures because it is in the cabin, there weren't any replacements for the oem originally.
then optima came along and they were cheap(er). and now, there are a number of options. but the limited quantity of production, (no other vehicle uses this size) along with the safety features probably keeps the price high.

strangely, even though gen 4 is now under the hood, it is still an odd size, and people have reported the replacement price as high as $400.

 

+1.

You just increased your words per post count too.