Oscar da Grouch
That F-N-G
- Location
- North Utah
Ive got a bit of experience here and its going to be a bit different than some others here.
I really like ENGO winches. They arent super fast and they run noisey but for 300 bucks they are a solid winch and we've given away tons of them at different events and they all have good results. The couple failures I've seen were user induced. The one a guy mounted his control box different than normal and didnt seal the factory holes so the south Georgia humidity corroded it in short order.
I've actually had more problems with Warn than any other brand. I've got a 9.5xp on my jeep now and it was the worst mistake I've ever made on the jeep. With less than a year on the vehicle the motor had rotted out. I sent the whole thing to the Warn service center to be rebuilt. Well turns out they only knocked some corosion off an sent it back. 3 weeks after it came back I was running an endurance race that required a winch to compete. Well long story short Warn cost me the podium because I spent a couple hours on the side of the trail rebuilding it in order to stay in the race. Went from first to last that day. Managed to fight back to a 6th place finish but it would have been the podium if not for the crap that warn is making these days. After blowing up their service center on social media from the race Warn corporate contacted me and sent a new motor eventually but the damage was done and they still use that crap service center for warranty work. I cant recommend warn at all and if someone will buy this one off me I'd replace it with a superwinch. $1400 dollar winch gave me more trouble in a year than the engo gave me in 6 years on 3 different rigs.
2017-03-12 15.50.41 by Oscar Indy, on Flickr
This is what I found after getting sunk in a pit that required a winch. This is apparently what warn considers rebuilt.
36 HRS (14) by Oscar Indy, on Flickr
36 HRS (13) by Oscar Indy, on Flickr
So warn is not what they used to be. They have fallen victim to the cost war like everyone else quality and service has cheapened. I didnt blast them till I was told to pound sand. It wasnt until after the social media backlash did they do anything. I'd run a smittybilt before I wasted money on another warn.
I really like ENGO winches. They arent super fast and they run noisey but for 300 bucks they are a solid winch and we've given away tons of them at different events and they all have good results. The couple failures I've seen were user induced. The one a guy mounted his control box different than normal and didnt seal the factory holes so the south Georgia humidity corroded it in short order.
I've actually had more problems with Warn than any other brand. I've got a 9.5xp on my jeep now and it was the worst mistake I've ever made on the jeep. With less than a year on the vehicle the motor had rotted out. I sent the whole thing to the Warn service center to be rebuilt. Well turns out they only knocked some corosion off an sent it back. 3 weeks after it came back I was running an endurance race that required a winch to compete. Well long story short Warn cost me the podium because I spent a couple hours on the side of the trail rebuilding it in order to stay in the race. Went from first to last that day. Managed to fight back to a 6th place finish but it would have been the podium if not for the crap that warn is making these days. After blowing up their service center on social media from the race Warn corporate contacted me and sent a new motor eventually but the damage was done and they still use that crap service center for warranty work. I cant recommend warn at all and if someone will buy this one off me I'd replace it with a superwinch. $1400 dollar winch gave me more trouble in a year than the engo gave me in 6 years on 3 different rigs.
2017-03-12 15.50.41 by Oscar Indy, on FlickrThis is what I found after getting sunk in a pit that required a winch. This is apparently what warn considers rebuilt.
36 HRS (14) by Oscar Indy, on Flickr
36 HRS (13) by Oscar Indy, on FlickrSo warn is not what they used to be. They have fallen victim to the cost war like everyone else quality and service has cheapened. I didnt blast them till I was told to pound sand. It wasnt until after the social media backlash did they do anything. I'd run a smittybilt before I wasted money on another warn.
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