Thread: Aldi winch

Originally Posted by gofish

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.

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

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

CHEERS TIM..

Originally Posted by Rosscoe68

or just order here for a 12000lb one

12VOLT 12000LBS/5440KG Electric Winch /w Remote - Online Shopping with CrazySales.com.au Australia

The warranty is only for 30 days and parts ONLY !

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.

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....

Originally Posted by 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....

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

Originally Posted by 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....

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