Reading the directions helped me alot when I stalling the winch on my son's 250 recon. The blue, yellow wires were too short and the red, black wires from warn were wayyyyy to long so I swapped them.
I checked on it a month or two ago. It still looks totally fine. If it ever causes trouble I’ll fix it; but I doubt it will ever need it. Would nylon straps have sufficed and been better? Perhaps.