Quote Originally Posted by Plasnart View Post
My only comment really is regards to your requirement for an electric winch. I have had winches for years and only ever used one for recovery on four occasions. Twice were hand winch recoveries before I had an electric winch, and twice with an electric winch. So that's 4 times in 17 years of 4x4ing I've needed winch recovery. No, I'm not into "extreme" offroading but have done a lot of advanced tracks I suppose you could say and evidently nearly every time I could work myself out of the predicament without a winch. I don't plan to install one into the Y62.
I totally understand your point. I've owned a 4wd for 22 years now and have never had anything but a hand winch as well. My front paddock is about 10 acres and I took my old wagon in there a couple of years ago to get some fallen timber out for the slow combustion fire in the house. It got bogged due to La Nina bucketing H2O down. Anyway the only way I could get my old Commodore Wagon out was to snatch it out with my VC Commodore with over 100 metres of straps to join the two vehicles.