Kansas City Tacoma Crew - 816/913

very true!

 

Hmm, an electrical problem maybe - those are my specialty.

 

How much would you charge for it fixed?

 

lol, I dunno. I've never touched a winch in my life, at least not an electric one. I can't even guarantee I could both take it apart and put it back together.

 

it annoyed me i only had the thing for a year before it shit the bed i know it also might need a new cable it has a few messed up spots

after it died i didnt have the time to take it out of the truck so it wasnt spooled back up it just sat there

 

ya thats why it sits lol i always thought if i got it fixed i would use it for something out at my grandparents

 

its best to buy a good winch the first time instead of having it fail when you need it...

 

In 20 years, you'll open it, find a single loose nut on a wire terminal, and then cry yourself to sleep.

 

haha nah i did check those to make sure they were good but im happy with my 10k warn its a way better winch

 

^ exactly

a winch doesn’t do you any good if it doesn’t work. And when you need to use it, it needs to work.

lots of people buy cheap winches and never use them and are then surprised when they don’t work

 

I'm a cheap ass, but if anything, a winch is worth a splurge.

 

I would be curious to see how it failed. Its always frustrating when a perfectly good machine is crippled by one crappy part.

My landlord replaced my fridge for me right after I moved in because it kept thawing on me. You could hit some buttons on the front and get it to come back on and be ice cold, but in 3 days or so it would stop working again. That tells me that mechanically it was just fine, and there was something up with the controller. Maybe even something as simple as a bad temp sensor.. Had it been my fridge, that fancy pants controller on the door would have been ripped out and replaced with something much simpler, and I bet it would still work. But, it wasn't my fridge and now I have a new one.

 

Open it up

my money is on corrosion or a bad connection. But troubleshooting electrical sucks ass

 

Esp when it comes to safety and recovery gear. Buy quality, so you only have to buy once, and you make it home in one piece.

 

extremely good points!

there is a reason some of this stuff is expensive its been tested and abused by people all over!

 

yup recovery gear is something you dont wanna be cheap on unless you want to use a chain and have it snap and fly back and kill ya

 

big time man electrical is a major pain in the ass lol

 

That's why we don't off-road alone yet. We don't have recovery gear. I wouldn't want to go alone until we had a radio setup and winch.

 

yup even alone with a ton of gear can be sketchy i prefer to wheel with others just in case i get in a situation i cant get out of my self

 

It's not so bad once you understand the will of the angry pixies stored in the battery.