This winch is great, I have had one on my wrangler for 3 years. I decided to get one for my gladiator, and it wasn’t shipping in time to be my weekend project. I drove down to my local 4WP stores (Thousand Oaks) and they had the winch in stock as well as the factor 55 flatlink I ordered with it. I was able to pick up my order and complete the install when I wanted. This is a great winch, always been able to recover a vehicle even in the toughest situations.

Does exactly what it is supposed to do. I have already winched 4 massive trees out of the way on my property.

If you are installing this on a Westin HDX grille guard and winch tray, be advised it will not fit unless you do extensive re drilling of the mounting holes. And, if you are installing the westin tow hooks, you will also need to re drill the mounting holes--all of them

Negative battery cable may be too short. Spooling the 12k rope will be impossible for any person to pull the cable through the hole.Suggestion would be to hook the cable to 8 feet of wire and then attach the wire to another vehicle and pull it through rather easily. otherwise, installation was easy. have not used it in a recovery situation yet,however it did pull my 8k truck up a hill when initially stretching the rope.