Thread: Suggestions for a winch?

gday mate

i was also in the market for a winch up until this morning, similar criteria to yours. I didn't start a thread because i wanted to avoid the usual comments of "anything but a WARN is ****" and i didn't have the budget for a warn. So after reading a heap of threads all over the place about the lower end of the scale winches, this morning i ordered a Runva 11XP, seems like a pretty good unit with good reviews and couldn't find any real whinge threads about them and they are reasonably priced. I have no experience at all with winches this is my first one so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

Yeah the 9500 runva competition looks good really. looks to be a fast winch too. I'll have a bit more of a read but I dont mind. it's only for the bush basher. When time come sto do the defender up then I'll go for a warn.

the casing on the warn thats on the disco is shattered. LOL

Originally Posted by LoveB

Yeah the 9500 runva competition looks good really. looks to be a fast winch too. I'll have a bit more of a read but I dont mind. it's only for the bush basher. When time come sto do the defender up then I'll go for a warn.

the casing on the warn thats on the disco is shattered. LOL

I bought a Runva Hydraulic 15,000lbs. Winch for my scrap/recovery truck, much bigger and not electric like you are looking for.
But extremely well built and strongly designed, if I buy another winch for my Disco 1 it will be a Runva electric, Regards Frank.

Also looking for a winch and have read good things about the the Super Cheap Auto "Ridge Ryder" and also the Aldi winches. Seen some bad posts about the Tigerz.Waiting for the Xmas Sales though at close to 1/2 price.

Have you looked into getting your old winch rebuilt / serviced. Mate had his old WARN Tabor done by a local Perth winch company and it came back as good as new for $260.

A couple of mates have the ironman winch on there Prado and Hilux, we gave them death all day at Woodhill and they trucked along very well. Albeit, very slowly.

On paper the EWX runva seem better spec'd.

In saying all that, that was the only winching I have done. When it comes time to get myself one I think I will get the Runva EWX12000.

Runva are a solid winch...

Many here are changing to them over Warn as they change vehicles.

Warn are to winches what Kodak is to cameras... Old name, no longer the top!

With the Runva units - other than the fact the one is red and one is gray what is the go with the two colors ? Is one a newer model?

Have looked on the web but no obvious answers ?

Still some winches at mz local Aldi.

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