Thread: New ARB Winch Bar, what winch to get?

12v Electric Winches - Ironman 4x4

I fitted one of these to my ARB Bar and I have only had to use it in anger a couple of times over the year that I have had it and it has worked flawlessly.
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Domin8r X 12,000lb Winch with rope , 4WD & Outdoor Products - Australia

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

12v Electric Winches - Ironman 4x4

Yep and they want all your details to give you a quote. No thanks. Runva, my preferred has the price on the website, and so does supacentre, which I'm likely to get as I am a bit money challeneged atm.

Carbon or Runva

I recon nearly 50% of the times I’ve been with others their electric winch’s have had issues.....keep on top of the maintenance seems to be the key regardless of brand.

I’m fitting up my PTO winch today......does come at a price as the exhaust needs to be rerouted.

Originally Posted by Bohica

I'm replacing the ARB bull with an ARB winch bar thanks to the other drivers insurance company. What winch to get? The Warn's are eye wateringly expensive, are Runvas any good? or what other brand?

Thanks

Julian

I have used a Runva on my D2 arb winch bar without any worries. From the tech demo's I've been to i believe the Runva's have less water ingress issues than the warns. But please DYOR..

Originally Posted by Noisy

Mate of mine fitted a supercheap one to his d1 works great, only problem was the plug on the top of the control box correded out from filling up with rain ect, but they sell replacements ones instore. I believe the supacentre ones are cheaper to buy then supercheap and possible better too. Runva winches are held in pretty high regard on alot of other forums. If you got money to burn warn seems to be the best

I run a similar winch on my 130 and had same issues with plug in control box, bought a new one blanked off original hole and remounted on side of control box
winch has never let me down (except initial plug issues) use it a lot snicking logs etc probably will need to replace cable before winch.....however I did pull it apart and grease properly before I fitted it but to be fair factory grease wasn't to bad but I wanted to be sure

Cheers Paul

I have a Domin8r 12000 winch from supercenter ,its been on my new car for about a 2 years .Used it about three times, I've had no problems with it. It was the first model .The new model has a more powerful motor and a up dated brake .Hope this helps