Ebay winches!!

[long stroke]

Does anyone own one of those cheap ebay winches?
I was looking at them the other day seem to have all the gear for a very low price.It would be interesting to know how well they peform campared to say a warn winch!

(Sorry if this topic has been brought up before)

CHEERS TIM

[weeds]

have a look here...... http://www.aulro.com/afvb/gclro-general/55633-cheaper-winches.html

[martinozcmax]

I bought one for pulling in the 16ft fibreglass boat. It worked ok however it wasn't very quick and I ended up fitting drive on rollers and selling the winch.

Probably means I wouldn't recommend them. I suspect you get what you pay for. :eek:

Regards


Martin

[martinozcmax]

I bought one for pulling in the 16ft fibreglass boat. It worked ok however it wasn't very quick and I ended up fitting drive on rollers on the trailer and selling the winch.

Probably means I wouldn't recommend them. I suspect you get what you pay for. :eek:

Regards


Martin

[Ace]

i think you can get faulty products no matter what you buy, its just that some products have alot less.

A mate of mine has a 12000lb cheapy and its been great, its sounding sick now but thats from over 3yrs of faultless service and not one bit of maintenance.

I am going to bring in some samples myself from china to test out and if they seem ok for the money i am going to bring more in and sell them on my site.

Both of the places in china i have spoken to offer a full range of spare parts, so they are available. I think its more a case of who you buy them off more than anything. If i start selling them i will honor warranties and then when the period is up offer spare parts. Matt