I love your videos. I just had a Rhino 4x4 2022 Defender front bumper system and the Warn Zeon Platinum winch professionally installed. Got home. Winch worked one time then had pairing issues. Didn’t see your video until I took off the bumper!! The trick with the battery terminal and the vehicle started worked! I had to do it several times but it worked. Thank you!!! FYI the Rhino 4x4 bumper is cool looking but a nightmare to install and there is no access to the winch without taking the whole front grill off. Thanks again you guys are awesome!!!
I added a 500Amp solenoid/relay and wired it to an up fitter switch in my F150. The upfitter switch wired to your solenoid enables you to apply power only when needed and will automatically link up with your Warn Winch. I also encountered the same issue and this was my work around.
Thanks for the video. I got all excited as I kind of hoped you found an even better solution. But the one you show, works and that was what I realised I needed to do from the day after I fit the winch. Rather sub standard I feel, especially if you are doing a bit of off road work often, you really need to do this every day to cover the one day you need the winch in a pickle. I came up with three other solutions that may help others. 1. WARN make a relocation package to relocate the wireless reset switch from the back of the winch to some other location under the hood. Not a bad solution, but in my case it would require some assisted work to basically remove the bull bar, bumper and winch, then add the switch relocation package and put it all back together. 2. Exactly as you have have done, but rather than removing the positive terminal and reconnecting, you can achieve the same thing by disconnecting the negative terminal. In my case that was fitted to the stud about 4 inches away from the red terminal bar you showed, in what appears to be a little post for a clamp or similar. The advantage here is that the negative disconnect does not risck the live terminal touch you talked about with your tools. This makes it a little safer and easier to access. In theory it probably should not work, with the warn winch being grounded with a seperate wire for the wireless module, but in reality it works fine. (Possibly part of the problem in the first place.) 3. I grabbed a 500 Amp Battery isolator switch with key and a short hi amp cable with eyelet ends, and put it in line with the negative terminal. So now I have a switch that isolates the negative terminal mentioned in point 2 above. I have found that if I leave it off, then every time I want to use the winch, I just turn it on, and the remote connects instantly. No need to perform the pairing again. This is much easier, and so far has worked every time instantly. I must say that I am very disappointed that I paid the big bucks for the WARN winch on this car, when every other car I have put a winch on I chose the cheaper option and never ever had a day of trouble. This fails out of the box, and really points to an issue with their design. Hope this helps others.
Simon.. Thanks for raising the issue, I have been struggling with this for 4 months (since I got the winch installed)... The only way I have been able to get the winch to re-pair is by reaching through the same gap as you at the side of winch.. if you toggle the power switch on-off 3 times then the unit miraculously springs back into life (without the need for re-pairing on the handheld remote control... TBA at this price point I did not expect to be reaching through the grill to get the winch to start working... if you are waist deep in water and need to pull yourself out the last thing you want to be doing is wading in trying to find the power switch on the winch
Well done Simon…I’m two weeks out with videos so catching up and glad you haven’t done many! The JLR winch experience seems bad news from opening the box to trying to use it…yes get Zak going with a brilliant idea. Good luck for the weekend…brave travel indeed! Go carefully, Richard😀😀😀😀
Another issue with the warn winch is the battery drain on the controller. there is a great youtube video on how to fix it so the controller is always charged and available to use.
Entertaining video as always - I recall you having a slight connection glitch when we tested the winch before our off road day. The "unreachable" switch does seem to illustrate that the Defender accessories team had little influence on the main design engineers or accessories were just an after thought ! Mudflaps being a good example - I don't think I've ever seen a more complex/time consuming way to install mudflaps ! A couple of suggestions - 1) Have you thought of ditching the pseudo plastic A frame ? I've seen quite a few pics of new Defender winch installs minus the big extra lump of plastic. The ones I've seen look much neater and allow you to leave the hook permanently on (like my Shogun one) 2) My Warn is one model down from your's and has a plug in back up controller as well as wireless. No help for you but if I was doing a winch on a Defender I would buy all the brackets etc. from LR but source the winch myself (VR-Evo: one step down from top model) A winch is such a cool looking (and useful) accessory for a 4x4, it is such a shame that it's hidden on the "official" LR install method. Good opportunity to come up with a major retrofit for your install. Looking forward to your Wales video - hope you get to use the winch in anger !
Hi David - I was never happy with the winch connection ever since we joined you on our off road day - now i am a lot happier that i understand how to do the reset and the repairing. This was a neat video someone shared with me ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A_WZ8th_NYI.html Just had a good weekend off roading in Wales - video coming soon.
Hey Simon, I noticed when you got pairing to work the red X was on the remote prior to it working, so was the battery cable disconnect needed? Or do you simply have to activate pairing and switch car on mid pair?
