Customer Product Reviews

TRAC™ Electric Trailer Winches

Forget cranking. Now your can load your boat with the push of a button. These 12-volt electric winches mount to the same standard bolt pattern holes your old hand-cranked winch uses no drilling, special parts or unique mounts are required for quick and easy installation. Heat-treated gears for smooth-running performance and long-lasting durability, and an oversized clutch knob for freewheel-out cable feeding. An auxiliary light glows when the winch is activated for watching your progress and easier night loadings. Spare crank included for unpowered operation. Impact- and UV-resistant ABS plastic housing. The winch is loaded with a 30-ft. long, 7/32"-wide steel cable to accommodate boats of many different lengths. It operates with either a corded push-button remote (Small Craft model) or a wireless remote control (Day Runner and Lite Cruiser models). Includes circuit breaker, and all installation wire and hardware.

Average Customer Rating:

2.3 out of 5

1 of 6 (17%) customers would recommend this product to a friend.

Customer Reviews for TRAC™ Electric Trailer Winches

Overall Rating:

1 out of 5

Trac C-10000 Very Poor, August 16, 2009
By MarkFromMass from Orange, MA

"I do not normally take the time to write reviews but in this case I felt it was the right thing to warn every other customer of this VERY POOR product. I have a 16' 6" Sea Nymph Aluminum boat which a 1500 electric winch which had a little trouble closing the last foot to fully mounted, so I decided to upgrade to the 5900 lb bunk capacity of this C-10000. What a mistake! First I had to construct a new mounting platform to get the desires angle and bolt pattern. Then the unit is extremely slow when it works! It works for about 2/3 of the boat retrieve and then starts hesitating and about 2-3 feet from fully mounted it completely stops. Cabela's needs to discontinue this product immediately. Oh, I forgot to mention that I should have known there was a problem with these units as mine was back ordered for some time before it was shipped."

Would you recommend this product to a friend? No

Review 2 for TRAC™ Electric Trailer Winches

Overall Rating:

4 out of 5

TRAC 7000, August 4, 2009
By SierraNevadaJackson from High Sierra Nevadas, California

"Difficult to mount if you have little platform in which to mount. I had to purchase a 6" X 8" 1/4" thick aluminum plate to mount on my trailer.

My trailer only had a 2" square gavanized arm area (where the old winch mounted) to mount the plate to. So in order to use the holes provided in the winch, I had to grind the heads of the rear bolts, and one side of the nuts, so they would "stradle" the 2" arm.

Some considerable work had to be done, but if TRAC had done their homework and reviewed more light weight trailers, they might have come up with a better mounting system.

Be prepared to do some mechanical engineering if the area to mount the unit doees not provide a large enough surface to mount the unit."

Would you recommend this product to a friend? Yes

Review 3 for TRAC™ Electric Trailer Winches

Overall Rating:

1 out of 5

as bad as it gets, July 23, 2009
By DCHARLEY from Rochester NY

"I should of listened to some of the other reviewers. They said these winches were poor performers and they were right. I had to completely take it apart to install it. They quality is of poor construction. It it very loud and when it did move my boat it is very slow. I got the 7,000 lb one to make sure it would retrieve my 2,300 lb boat. Well guess what? I had to almost completely submerge my trailer in order to get the winch to work. It would cut out, hesitate and completely stop. I took it off as soon as I got home and put the hand crank back on. I will get some other electric winch, but not the TRAC. If I could give it zero stars I would."

Would you recommend this product to a friend? No

Review 4 for TRAC™ Electric Trailer Winches

Overall Rating:

1 out of 5

Sirwoool, July 22, 2009
By Quantom from California

"Real excited to receive the winch....Until I tried it on the boat and trailer. Worked fine in the driveway. The lake was another story, it wouldn't work at all, didn't even make a sound.. If this ie the quality of all these winches, Cabala's would be better served to NOT carry this item."

Would you recommend this product to a friend? No

Review 5 for TRAC™ Electric Trailer Winches

Overall Rating:

5 out of 5

trac electric winch, July 7, 2009
By arimaranger from SERIOUS ANGLER

"Item was of poor quality. Corded remote broke after three plug ins.The receptacle pushed inside the housing therefore rendering the corded remote unusable after 3 days and not
EVEN ONE USAGE.HAVE A GREAT DAY . MY RATING WAS ONE STAR."

Would you recommend this product to a friend? No

Review 6 for TRAC™ Electric Trailer Winches

Overall Rating:

2 out of 5

mounting, June 13, 2009
By tjwx from michigan

"seems to for ok but slow. life would have been easier
if they offered a mounting bracket or a bolt hole
template i had to invent a mounting bracket. my first design worked but needs inprovement. i have about 4 hours
tring to find or make a bracket! the hand crank is a joke
the holes are machined wrong to fit properly and you
need king kong to operate. i should of spent another $100
and got a different winch"

Would you recommend this product to a friend? No

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