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MudRat:
Got 300 quid to spend do I go for:

Warn 8000, 5 years old, been rebuilt, little use, cw Plasma, but no wiring.

This one at 310 pounds http://indigo.xilo.net/~landrove/rangiebreaker/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=47&category_id=14&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1

Or this one http://www.paddockspares.com/pp/OFF_ROAD/Winches/Britpart_Winch_DB8000.html I can get for 275 GBP

or this one http://www.newman4x4.com/product_info.php?products_id=19526&nwCsid=qtp3skh036oq8l47dv7eq7tto1 for 305 GBP

or this one http://www.paddockspares.com/pp/OFF_ROAD/Winches/Britpart_Winch_DB9500i.html for 350 GBP

Any thoughts, the Warn is better obviously, but i would need to wire in the socket for the wander lead and also all the battery wires. So not sure??

Onan The Barbarian:
Spotted these two on eBay, Mate...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=250275555239&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:PIC&ih=015  12000lbs (5443kgs) / £254 (incl. P&P)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=170278084815&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=007  16800lbs (6804kgs) / £335 (incl. P&P)

Good prices but no idea if they're any good though :?

Disco-Ron:

--- Quote from: Onan The Barbarian on November 13, 2008, 17:57:22 ---Spotted these two on eBay, Mate...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=250275555239&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:PIC&ih=015  12000lbs (5443kgs) / £254 (incl. P&P)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=170278084815&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=007  16800lbs (6804kgs) / £335 (incl. P&P)

Good prices but no idea if they're any good though :?



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Those winches are fine, ............ if you have a boat, cos if you need an anchor you'll have one...LOL!!!

Out of the options given, i would go for the Warn, it's a professional winch, and a bit of wiring will only help familiarise you with it and how it works..... which can only be a good thing...!!!
When you wire it, it's quite simple to give yourself internal control aswell as outside on a  wander lead,  i also have a solenoid to switch the winch 'on' in the first place, with a little light telling me the winch is 'live'...... all you need for 'in and out' is an electric wondow switch........

L90OOK:
Go for a budget WARN TABOR  Excellent winch at a good price.  Contact thermidorthelobster on here, he has one on his disco  :afro:

Disco Matt:
May also be worth fitting a kill switch inside too. I recall a chap I know saying that on one event in France he had been more than a tad surprised by a complete stranger reaching in, picking up the remote, and winching him up the hill.

Said stranger was apparently sightly bemused by the robust Anglo-Saxon terms this provoked! :lol:

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