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Why a Warn winch? This is the question I recently ran into when kitting out my new Hilux Revo. In the “good old days” you had a choice between Warn and Ramsey, and if you were lucky, one or two others. Now we have a regular smorgasbord of choices, with most of them leaning towards the eastern cuisine. While Warn is still available in several guises, these winches do command a premium price compared to other brands – sometimes to the tune of three or four times the price of a winch sourced from China.

I finally decided to go with Warn for two reasons: known reliability and quality, and aftermarket support. My choice was the sleek new waterproof Warn Zeon winch. Once it was fitted, we went off on a wet-season run of the Pafuri/Mabote/Mapinhane route, and promptly got well stuck in the mud. The winch worked great for the first section, but ten metres before the end of the pan it suddenly lost power, and then ceased to work at all. After many more adventures, we got back, and I took the winch and my complaints to our local fitment centre.

After some time, I was informed by them that