Thread: Warn Winches - 9.5XP, 9.5Ti or 9.5Si ???

Originally Posted by Yorkshire_Jon

Wouldnt that be easy! Problem is here in the UK people are frightened to sell the Defender ARB (legal issues re bull-bars - see below) and therefore information is VERY limited, especially on the new breed of winches, hence the questions. The nearest place that may know are the Germans, my Germain isnt that great and there English is only marginally better!

To my knowledge the UK law states that you can fit these "winch mounts" if the car it is to be applied to does not meet the latest (EU4 I think) safety standards. To that end the Defender doesnt and therefore is OK. Another grey area of UK law is who is responsible in a court of law, should an accident arise and law suit arise due to the ARB, the seller or buyer....

All these things conspire against selling the ARB in the UK, but I can get them easily from Germany - so long as I know what I want / need!

But I thought all you wanted to know was whether a certain type of winch will fit in the ARB bar.....you don't have to ring a uk dealer to find that out ring australia or the states was all I was thinking. They don't have to be close to just find out information. You find out what you want and then buy it from where ever.
If derek can ring head office I don't see why you can't..just don't tell them its for a uk car nt that I would imagine they would even ask, and if they did tell them the car is in oz and that your away with work in the uk

Originally Posted by dmdigital

Don't see why not.

From what I've seen when I installed it the whole unit is encased and just has the terminals for the wires on the outside. Couldn't see any opening for anything to get in to it. Hence I don't see mounting it there as an issue.

Solenoid diagram in this PDF: XDC Installation

I had the Warn 9.5XP winch installed and the control box design is to be flat, So that when doing water crossings the solenoid dont short out.

My 4wd recently was up to the roof in water! The winch and battery were completly covered.
I hooked the winch remote to the box (Under Water) and it pulled the 4WD out!
The 4WD is now written off by the insurance agency.
Oh by the way I did check the depth 3/4 across the creek but the last 3 meters was way over my head!

I would recommend the Warn 9.5XP to anyone that asks, when the brocure says it will work in the most extreme conditions I will say that there bloody right!

Just my 2c worth

Regards

The 9.5xp will go into a Defender okay, but the crush cans will need to be modified to fit to a D2.

Waz

Originally Posted by waz

The 9.5xp will go into a Defender okay, but the crush cans will need to be modified to fit to a D2.

Waz

On an ARB Bar?

A DV9000 sold as Premier Winch in Aus (come up I think in uk) will beat all of them..

I know this, I've had several Warns, a couple of tmax and the premier.

I've stalled the Warns often, but never the Premier...

Premiers external brake won't kill amsteel either... The Warns will and use a sleeve on the inner layers to try and avoid this.

Premiers clutch is far better and won't jam either!

Some specs:

Warn XP - note the current draw!


And the XDC - don't get much slower!!!

tombie - what's amsteel ?