WINCH EXPERIENCE
Submitted: Saturday, Jun 18, 2011 at 23:46
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Member - Gordon T (NSW)
About to decide on an ARB bull-bar & winch for the NT Pajero. Does anybody have personal (your own) expereince with either TIGERZ11 or Mako KDS9
winches (with Dyneema rope) and their suitabuility for an ARB steel bar. I know the recent results of 4WD mag tests - but I am looking for personal, on the road experiences please. Also where the recent best prices on the
winches might be. Thanks for your comments.
Gordon T.
Reply By: Bigfish - Sunday, Jun 19, 2011 at 08:14
Sunday, Jun 19, 2011 at 08:14
Currently have a 12000 lb Tigerz winch on troop carrier. Used it last weekend to pull car and boat out of
swamp track in the NT here. Performed
well. The rope is very strong and the whole winch is less than half the weight of the warn 12000 (which I replaced with the Tigerz). Only used twice now (12 months old) but I,m happy about that! Bought
mine online for about $800.00 deliverd. Ended up costing $250 for delivery!!! Lucky I didnt have to pay and I think dealer has revised his free shipping policy for remote areas. So far no problems.
cheers
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Reply By: Crackles - Sunday, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:19
Sunday, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:19
I'll pre-empt my answer by declaring not many people I travel with offroad rely on the cheaper
winches for recovery so last weekend I was interested to see how
well a brand new Tiigerz in our group would go on an A grade run we did near Jamieson. We all ended up winching nearly 200m in total & the speed of the Tigerz 10000 was impressive although only pulling a short wheel base Jeep. For a brand new winch I felt the rope was too hard to pull out on free wheel so we powered it out mostly. Loved the remote control. Compared to the Warn 9500 Ti it was pretty noisy but what concerned me the most was that after just 40 minutes of intermitant use it started to make loud growling noises when powering out under load. Day 1 & this winch will need to be pulled out & repaired.
So yet again another cheap winch failed on one of my trips after very little use in tough conditions. From my experience I'm yet to be convinced any of these budget
winches have got it right yet. I certainly won't be hanging my $35,000 car off the end of one of them just yet!
On the bulll front I'd be inclined to fit an alloy bar to a Pajero. Steel bars add too much weight over the front end of the car particually for small to medium sized vehicles.
Cheers Craig......................
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