12V Electric Winch Boat Trailer Recovery Winch Puller - Versatile to Use Can Attach to a Tow Hitch and Pull All Kinds of Vehicles and Equipment

Great product did exactly what they said it would easy to use and set up mounting in a small space bit fiddly but great for what we wanted 10 out of 10

Keep a 6 metre boat with two 50HP engines on a trailer in a corner of the garden over the winter, it is on a slight slope and access by car is very limited. At the start of the new season manually pulling the boat out is proving difficult as I get older, however it is really simple with this winch. I just park my car at the top of the slight incline, attach this winch to the car tow bar using the supplied adapter plate and wire it to a spare 12 volt car battery. Hey presto it pulls the boat out without issue, it will only be used a couple of times a year but for the price it is hard to beat.

You've got to be REALLY careful to keep the cable straight as it winds/unwinds, otherwise the cable will lodge itself between the casing and the pressure plate. I've done this twice - the first time, the pressure plate broke. The second time, it got stuck and is impossible to un-lodge. In saying that, for the price it does it's job well so I've just ordered my third one.

The winch performs exactly as specified and in fact might pull more than the weight specified. I use it to pull a boat (Orkney type) and trailer up a steep jetty. It is slow - but a lot better than ending up with the car in the sea. The instructions don't appear to show you how to let out the cable, but it's easy to work out (slacken off the knob under the winding handle), then when the cable is out to the correct length, tighten up the knob and start winching.

The winch didn't work when I received it. It had an electrical connection fault, also reported in a review in Jan 2024. It was not checked before being sent or the fault would have been found. By twisting and turning the plug that pushes into the winch it would operate but once released, it stopped. I checked the cable and it was fine, it was an internal fault. Therefore, I cannot say whether it would have done the job or not. I bought it to winch a heavy mobility scooter on/off a trailer, using ramps. iShop247 demonstrated the worst after-sales service I have experienced. I was told they would pay up to £4.60 return postage. You can get it at that price up to 10kg. The winch's gross weight is 10.2kg which is printed on the box so no chance of porkies. It would cost £8 or more to drop-off, more to collect. Any extra cost was mine to bear, they said, even though they sent me unchecked junk (technical term for non-operational machine). Amazon then issued a return label and I dropped it off using the mobility scooter. 10.2kg is hard to carry when in a box with no handles, especially when walking is challenging. iShop247 said, refund 'in due course' but only when I asked where the refund was. After 8 days from it being delivered back, there was still no refund so I asked Amazon for it and they issued the refund, not iShop247. So beware and if you do order from iShop247, hope it works or is 10kg max gross weight.

A great looking useful winch. Sadly on its first use the 12 volt connections were loose/broken preventing a constant electrical connection. Winch was returned for refund

Still trying to fix it down somewhere safely so I can winch my wheelchair into my van without my chair falling off the side of the ramps, (my fault not the winch).

If it is not rewound in a strait line it pushes the pressure plate of.