'ol Blue
New member
A couple of months ago when shopping for a winch for my 2015 JKUR I drank the cool aid and settled on a smittybilt x20 10k winch with synthetic line. At the time of purchasing my wife said you should get a Warn. Well I reasoned why spend almost twice the price for a winch. Warn can't be the only good winch right?
Well Sunday we were up hwy 4 here in California and we were trail riding some forest roads looking for some trouble to get into and alas we found some snow. DEEP snow. We hit it hard but about halfway through we were done bottomed out on the frame.
No problem right we got a winch right. WRONG! My son runs out the synthetic winch line sweet my nine year old can handle to line awesome. We hook up to a sturdy tree get in the jeep get the tires rolling click remote in and nothing. Winch spinning but we aren't moving.
I get out the winch line spinning on the drum. Well crap. When installing this line I wound it on under tension With the jeep on a small hill yet when we went to use it the end of the rope ripped the head off of the bolt that holds the wire to the drum.
I quickly emailed smittybilt Sunday afternoon and have yet to hear from them so as I am now ordering my new Warn Zeon 10-s this afternoon all I can hear is my wife say "I told you so". Lesson learned and I hope my experience might help someone else.
Oh yeah after two hours of trying to dig it out with shovels we resorted to walking back to the main road. An hour worth of walking we ran into three Jeeps that came to our rescue. They had Warn's. The Jeeping community is great and we are proud to be apart of it. Next time maybe it will be us helping someone with the unfortunate luck we suffered from this weekend.
Well Sunday we were up hwy 4 here in California and we were trail riding some forest roads looking for some trouble to get into and alas we found some snow. DEEP snow. We hit it hard but about halfway through we were done bottomed out on the frame.
No problem right we got a winch right. WRONG! My son runs out the synthetic winch line sweet my nine year old can handle to line awesome. We hook up to a sturdy tree get in the jeep get the tires rolling click remote in and nothing. Winch spinning but we aren't moving.
I get out the winch line spinning on the drum. Well crap. When installing this line I wound it on under tension With the jeep on a small hill yet when we went to use it the end of the rope ripped the head off of the bolt that holds the wire to the drum.
I quickly emailed smittybilt Sunday afternoon and have yet to hear from them so as I am now ordering my new Warn Zeon 10-s this afternoon all I can hear is my wife say "I told you so". Lesson learned and I hope my experience might help someone else.
Oh yeah after two hours of trying to dig it out with shovels we resorted to walking back to the main road. An hour worth of walking we ran into three Jeeps that came to our rescue. They had Warn's. The Jeeping community is great and we are proud to be apart of it. Next time maybe it will be us helping someone with the unfortunate luck we suffered from this weekend.