[Firebirdjones]

My experience with Optima was 6 years ago, not recently. My first impression was not liking the oddball shape that wouldn't fit in the battery tray correctly, and couldn't utilize the original battery hold down either even after getting it in the tray. It came with some cheesey plastic snap on parts to make the bottom square and fit better, pffff. That was just the start, the terminals were moved inboard or some weird stuff like that causing me to do funky things with the battery cables so everything fit decent. It was just one thing after another. You know, like when you buy a cheap Chinese part that doesn't fit right? That's what my experience was like. I wanted to get rid of it after the first day. 6 months later I sold another car so I swapped batteries between the two and was happy to settle for a correct fitting battery that was already 4 years old.