GusS

Do I need to find the orange top optimas with the reversed terminals?

Does Sears make a DieHard International battery that fits the A4?

How do I tie them down?

xr4tic

I pulled it out of my Merkur XR4Ti. It bolts right in, no problems. Sears lists a Diehard battery for the A4 that is slightly longer than my XR4Ti battery, but I don't know for sure if it fits, from the description it looked too long.
If you try the one for the A4, and it doesn't fit, then get the one for a Merkur XR4Ti.

I've heard that Optima is making an orange top battery that will fit our cars. The main problem is the red top batteries have the flange for a clamp on the front/back, but we need them on the sides for our cars. Optima doesn't have anything on their website about the orange tops though.

SirScott

I bought the one that Sears recommended though instead of pulling it out of my non-existant XR4Ti. It fit just fine, no complaints here.

S.

CharlieGSanD

my stock battery had the terminals on top as well.......

xr4tic

just that you can't clamp it down like the stock battery.

How'd you clamp yours down?

CharlieGSanD

the terminals were the same dia & went on with ease, the only problem is that optima has a diffrent design of battery tie down & you will need to make a 90deg bend to hold it in place