X-BULL Winch-13500 lb. Load Capacity Electric Winch -12V DC Power for Towing Truck Off Road, 2 in 1 Wireless Remote,13500 XRS Series

Winch is very easy to install, Instructions included, so far winch has been working great, retracting is quick, looks Awsome and very well made, Blue tooth controller options included, very good Winch for the price.

Don't let yourself get caught up in the "name brand" shaming cycle. Sure, you can spend four times the amount for a name brand. But this unit will do anything a warn or smittybuilt can. AT LESS THAN HALF THE COST.Build quality was fantastic. The winch operates flawlessly. It's a 216:1 ratio, so isn't going to blow the doors off in a race, but it will get there without overheating.Weighing 59lbs with synthetic rope, it fits perfectly into my Proline bumper on my 2007.5 Dodge Ram 3500.I'm not one for looks of a winch. I more care about how they perform. But this winch looks excellent on the front end of my truck, and pulls like a champ.I wanted to test the unit, so I hooked up to my camper after receiving the winch. Between the truck and trailer, the scale says I'm 16,500 lbs. The winch handled the weight fine up a roughly 10 degree grade.Overall I am pleased with my purchase. Should come in handy l late season elk hunting.

Easy to install on my gladiator. All the cables are a good length. Directions are simple. I esthetically pleased with the winch. Time will tell how we do on the trail!

I haven't had an opportunity to test this is real conditions, but it seems to work well on a bench test. The assembly instructions consisted of one page consisting of a small diagram on wiring. Nothing on bolting to a mount, etc. The rest of the information in the book as about how to use a winch. And don't bother calling X-Bull, you won't reach anyone. There is not help on their web site either. My chief complaint is the four mounting holes are not threaded but instead have a slot to slide in a nut that fits loosely. The nuts do not stay in place when you are mounting, so you have to tape them or use some other method to prevent it from falling out.

XBull customer service team came through! Great service! After reading my review I was contacted by Xbull to see if there was any way to help and if I could provide them with more details. The team was very curious about the unit I received and wanted to know every detail to make sure it didn’t happen again. I was glad they contacted me and was more than willing to help. After several conversations spanning over a few days Xbull decided that they should send me a new winch to replace the faulty one I had received 6 weeks prior. Even Warn didn’t bother to help me when their winch broke.After receiving the replacement winch it took me about an hour after delivery to remove the faulty unit and install the new one. Night and day difference in sound and performance. The battery draw was about 25% less than the faulty unit too. I tested it and confirmed everything under load. Works amazing. I’ve now used it about a dozen times in the last 2 weeks and it works just as well as the day I received it. The first one was half dead after a handful of uses, and even on the first use wasn’t nearly as strong as the replacement unit.I’ve been a customer for 5 years now. I will definitely be staying with XBull.Below is my initial review when I unknowingly received a faulty unit.Initial review:Works well enough for a few sticky situations. Then it gets really loud and noticeably weaker. Motor just doesn’t last. It’s definitely not 13,500 pounds even if you’ve only got 10 feet of line out. Especially if it’s been used to pull your rig out a dozen times. Gets louder and louder from the motor/gears every time you use it.This is my 4th xbull winch. Every time XBull releases a new winch they seem to fix one problem at a time. So I was hoping this winch wouldn’t have issues. It does sadly. The remote is ok so long as you are standing really close and pointing right at the winch. Having a spotter use the wireless remote from more than 10-15 ft away gets hard from the interference.

Bought this winch for my 1997 Jeep TJ. Installation took about an hour but only because it was my first time installing a winch (I'm rather mechanical/handy). If I had to do it again I probably could do in 1/3 the time knowing now where to route my wires to battery. BTW the battery lead extensions are just long enough to rout to battery safely with a few inches to spare. The remote control works flawlessly and the remote cord is long enough to operate the which sitting in driver seat or at a distance from the vehicle. Installed it and immediately went to my local mud/sand hole and "got stuck" intentionally to see how it would hold up. Tied around a tree and the thing yanked it out with relative ease from about +/- 60 feet out. Motor didn't overheat in the time I used it. The engage/disengage worked as it should. The hook with the magnet is also pretty clutch. After one use i'm very happy with how it yanked my tj out of the sand/muk in south florida. I'll come back to edit my reiview after a few months of use. Overall first impressions are that I'm very happy with price/value/effectiveness of this 13.5k winch. Would recommend.