Four Wheeler mag winch shootout

[unrealtrip]

http://www.fourwheeler.com/techartic...out/index.html

That has got to be one of the most biased reviews I've read in a long time. I like WARN and all, but the WARN failed every single test, yet they gave it first place. In fact, the only two winches that didn't have a catastrophic failure were ranked 3rd and 4th place. Most amazingly, the $330 fourth place winch, beat out the $1500 1st place winch across the board.

[Antichrist]

(Editor’s note: Mile Marker and Ramsey were also invited to submit winches for this shootout; both declined our invitation.)

Gee, I wonder why.

[08whitex]

Pays the bills

[lowenbrau]

If they had run the tests in reverse ( Ie the load test first and the immersion last ) the results may have been completely different.

The article does show what a pile of junk most electric winches are. The trauma of being removed from the shipping box, being dunked in water and being stalled out killed most of them...shameful

[AxeAngel]

Interesting to note that 4WP did not use their house brand "Smittybilt" in these tests...

-Sam

[1911]

Does anyone really expect objective journalism/testing from 4WP?

[lowenbrau]

What's all this talk about 4 Wheel Parts? The testing was done by Four Wheeler magazine wasn't it?

[Scoutn79]

Biased for sure. I love Warn winches and the customer service that comes with them BUT based on the test if a winch broke AND is the most expensive how can it be rated #1?
I love my 8274...30 years old and running strong with no issues...can't beat that.
Darrell

[Utah KJ]

“If you win, you win. If you lose, you still win.”

[coax]

At least now I know roughly how much my winch will pull be for destructo-ing