Aldi winch

[gofish]

This week Aldi are selling 9500 pound winches for $499 with a 2 year warranty. Any comments...?

[Tote]

Repost... http://www.aulro.com/afvb/general-chat/56729-winch-compressors-300w-inverter-vacuum-sealers-aldi.html

If you do a search there are a few threads on these winches.
Regards,
Tote

[RonMcGr]

This week Aldi are selling 9500 pound winches for $499 with a 2 year warranty. Any comments...?

I hope it last longer than a lot of their electrical s**t, sorry, "gear" :D

[Xavie]

haha. speaking of their electrical gear my friend got a computer from them a few years back and had to return it 6 times within 4 months and then was given a refund as they all seemed to be faulty. I just don't by stuff there as it isn't actually any cheaper.

Xav

[dungarover]

Funny that, I have a DVD Recorder I got for Xmas last year and had to take it back, the replacement (was a display model) has been trouble free

Re- Winch. I'm seriously considering it myself, at that price it's not such a bad deal :)

Trav

[p38arover]

Of course, there is this: AULRO Classifieds - Message - Powered by PhotoPost Classifieds (http://www.aulro.com/apc/showproduct.php/product/1863/cat/6) :angel:

We thought about having a raffle with this as the prize to raise money for AULRO but would we sell 100 tickets at $10 each?

[Rosscoe68]

or just order here for a 12000lb one

12VOLT 12000LBS/5440KG Electric Winch /w Remote - Online Shopping with CrazySales.com.au Australia (http://www.crazysales.com.au/index.php?productID=139)

[p38arover]

Now look here: http://www.aulro.com/afvb/general-chat/56817-raffling-rons-winch.html

[moose]

I've seen an aldi wich work fine, if a little slow. But then there's the theory of "would you want your pride and joy hanging off something you bought at the cheapest price?" That would equally apply to ebay gear also.

Probably depends on how you intend to use it I suppose.

[mcrover]

Only problem with that theory is that the only winch that ive had fail on me, and it was the gear box that failed was a 9000lb warn on the old D series while picking up a fairway mower from freeway golf club.

Yeah Warn were happy to replace the winch for free but what if that were on your truck and not just dragging a 2 ton mower onto a tow truck.

The trick is probably more to know what you have more than the price it cost or the shop you bought it from.

[p38arover]

The trick is probably more to know what you have more than the price it cost or the shop you bought it from.

:eek:

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[Tank]

This week Aldi are selling 9500 pound winches for $499 with a 2 year warranty. Any comments...?
I've only used mine a few time and have had no problems, BUT if you buy one pull the gearbox section down clean out the crap the Chow's call grease and pack it chockers with a good quality grease, I used Marine grease as it doesn't absorb water as readily as normal grease.
The wire rope at 8.3 mm does not have a Safe Working Load (SWL) of 4310kg (9500lb), but about 850 Kg SWL, the 4310kg advertised is the Guaranteed Breaking Strain of 8.3mm 7 strand wire rope and you dont want to be operating a winch with a wire rope at the limit of it's design, the winch will probably pull more with no problems, but the rope is not up to it, the wire rope on my winch is 11mm, remember the SWL load of a winch is determined by the SWL of the wire rope used, Regards Frank.

[Mudnut]

I got mine almost a year ago, and it has worked for everything I have needed if for. I wanted some extra insurance when I took the Defender up to Cape York. Didn't like the possibility of having to hand winch a fully loaded vehicle out of crock infested waters. I found it hard to justify the cost of the WARN ones. Mine has mainly been used to pull loads towards my Defender. I pulled the back of my house off during demolition, and pulled various logs off tracks. I also pull my fully loaded trailer up a slight grade, and into my garage, so I can hook it on to the Land Rover. I can't back all the way out to hook it up with the roof rack on. For my purposes, it has been flawless. Also I don't have to worry about having $1800+ sitting on the front bull bar outside in front of my house at night. The car has been broken into in the past.

Good price,

Ken

[long stroke]

Check out the raffle Ron's running you might get one for $10!:o

CHEERS TIM..

[Cool95]

or just order here for a 12000lb one

12VOLT 12000LBS/5440KG Electric Winch /w Remote - Online Shopping with CrazySales.com.au Australia (http://www.crazysales.com.au/index.php?productID=139)

The warranty is only for 30 days and parts ONLY !

[FenianEel]

Buy tickets in Rons.......but back to the subject...
The Aldi winch comes with a 2 yr warranty, and they will take back just about anything, for any reason. They seem to work OK and as others said, just repack yourself.
If I was looking for another winch, I'd buy one.

They also have a $99 compressoer (Bushranger rip off) for sale next week too.

[sclarke]

Aldi winch..... warrentee void if water ingress..... and it will.....

And would you risk your pride and joy with a cheap winch......

Let me put it this way...
Would you drive around on recaps made in india???
or
would you do a oil change with $3.99 oil from Aldi???

if you answer yes, then buy a cheap winch..... when it fails... and it will..... i hope your not on one of my trips....

[ak]

Aldi winch..... warrentee void if water ingress..... and it will.....

And would you risk your pride and joy with a cheap winch......

Let me put it this way...
Would you drive around on recaps made in india???
or
would you do a oil change with $3.99 oil from Aldi???

if you answer yes, then buy a cheap winch..... when it fails... and it will..... i hope your not on one of my trips....


You can get an Ironman off the net for about $750, Australian made, 3 year warranty and waterproof control box.

[dullbird]

Aldi winch.....
warrentee void if water ingress..... and it will.....

And would you risk your pride and joy with a cheap winch......

Let me put it this way...
Would you drive around on recaps made in india???
or
would you do a oil change with $3.99 oil from Aldi???

if you answer yes, then buy a cheap winch..... when it fails... and it will..... i hope your not on one of my trips....


i thought that would of been the same for all winches......i didn't think anyone sold a winch as water tight!!

[Hucksta]

You know what,

When it comes time for me to buy a winch, i probably would buy one of these. I know that you get what you pay for and if it turns out to be a lemon well that's the way it is. History is littered with stories of cheap equipment failing whilst in use, and history is littered with stories of expenisve equipment doing the same thing.

I would say that any winch is better than no winch. Some people (like me) have a hard time justifying 1,000 bucks or so for a winch, not to mention convincing the better half.

I read in a few other replies that blokes have purchased them, changed the grease and other bits, maybe some regular TLC and even rig up a weather cover or something, I don't know. So I reckon if you need a winch and you can't afford any other model then go ahead and get one ...... I would

Jason

[long stroke]

You know what,

When it comes time for me to buy a winch, i probably would buy one of these. I know that you get what you pay for and if it turns out to be a lemon well that's the way it is. History is littered with stories of cheap equipment failing whilst in use, and history is littered with stories of expenisve equipment doing the same thing.

I would say that any winch is better than no winch. Some people (like me) have a hard time justifying 1,000 bucks or so for a winch, not to mention convincing the better half.

I read in a few other replies that blokes have purchased them, changed the grease and other bits, maybe some regular TLC and even rig up a weather cover or something, I don't know. So I reckon if you need a winch and you can't afford any other model then go ahead and get one ...... I would

Jason

What he said.