Thread: Electric winch off Ebay

Remember you get what you pay for, it may last years it may last days, it's the ebay gamble. Would you really want to be in a situation where your life or car depended on the winch and you chose a no frills one to save a couple of hundred bucks?

over here big name brand winches are $2-3000, so for me its a cheap winch or no winch. I'll go for the cheap winch.

So who is going to buy one of these num-jum brands before me, it's worth one of you testing it for the rest of us. As already noted, just remember to strip it and greese it up good, quick one of you bid here

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/New-12VOLT-12...QQcmdZViewItem

Best regards
DarrenR

Mate go for it. I have seen plenty of Warns drop their guts as well as the Chinese brands. As long as your not competing, or doing the Outback challange, no probs. Good advise on the greasing side though, stick to some good maintenance and for an occasional club trip winch, it will serve well.


Justin

Thanks for the replies,
These exact guys were at the Landrover Field Day today with the winches for $710.00, with 12 mth warranty
They have a metal fabrication business and are keen 4wders. They were happy to discuss the unit, so it looks as tho I will get one soon. They appear to sell 4 a week thru ebay, hopefully I can pick one up a bit better than $710.00.
There were 3 other chinese 9500lb for $710.00 ( did they all collude??) under different names, but this one is 12,000lb

No wonder Warn etc are worried

question yourself how often you been out 4wding when u required a winch

if answer is less than 5 times in 3 years then buy yourself a tirfor or like manual winch

if answer more than 5 times than question yourself is an electric winch only likely to encourage you getting into these situations on the basis lve got winch l can pull myself out of the situation

cheapest option is go 4wding with another 4wd with snatchum straps

I have a 9000lb chinese copy of a mile marker that is sold a a brawn and many other lesser brands.

It's noisy when not loaded up but pulls like a school boy, enoough pull to bend both the winch cradle and the bull bar (alloy bar so I mounted it in a cradle behind the bar).

It cost me $690 on ebay about 2 years ago and has been used more to pull down trees and other people out of where I didn't want to drive down to get them.

I have pulled my self out once with it and it did it very easy, took longer to set up than to get out.

Some of the best money I have spent since I bought the Landy but the snatchy gets more of a work out.

I winch allows a much slower recovery which is espesially good when bogged to the belly in mud and you get that suction thing happening.

Going PTO, cause I can!, but I have a hardly used M12000 (4 fair dinkum pulls) for sale at AU$1500. It comes with a spare motor(AU$600) which I bought as a spare with the winch, and electrical wiring for a County/Defender. Winch cable not included.