2007 Sportsman Winch questions
 

I have searched but cannot find a straight answer. Im looking for the most plug and play winch set up for my 2007 Sportsman 800 X2.

Any recommendations? I want a kit that has everything, the mount, winch, wiring, ect....

Does anyone know if my quad would be pre wired for an easy winch install? Thanks!

This model is pre wired for a winch. Cables should be under the plate on the right front fender. Here's a winch for your machine. Plenty of others out there but stay with a good brand name and not a cheap Chinese winch.Warn ATV Vantage 2000lb Winch w/Mount 2007 Polaris Sportsman 800efi/X2 | eBay

I wish all quads were prewired for a winch. I see many newer ones and utvs are now. I honestly think all manufacturers should have a package like the Can-Am XT package that comes with a winch from the dealer so you don't even have to search for the best fit. It comes with a warn 3000 lb winch in all the atv models. Its actually a pretty reasonably priced upgrade as for about $800 you get the winch, nicer wheels and tires and beefier front and rear bumpers. But Can-Am is the only one offering such a package.

Maybe I just have bad luck with Warn winches, but I'm on my 3d one on my Arctic Cat 500. The original Warn 2000 lasted 5,000 miles, replaced it with a Warn 3000 Vantage 2 years and 1,500 miles ago. Today, had to replace it again. Almost went with a cheap Chinese one, but got a Warn 2000 Vantage. Noticed on the box = Assembled in the USA, Hmmm.:lmao:

No doubt parts are made elsewhere since the late 80's,90's or earlier on a lot of products. Remember old Sam Walton and "Buy American" Here's what he really meant.

"From the beginning, Walton had bought goods wherever he could get them cheapest, with any other considerations secondary," writes Bob Ortega, author of the Wal-Mart history, In Sam We Trust. By the early 1980s, Ortega reports, Walton "increasingly looked to imports, which were usually cheaper because factory workers were paid so much less in China and the other Asian countries."

According to Ortega, Walton himself estimated that imports accounted for nearly 6 percent of Wal-Mart's total sales in 1984. But another observer of that period, Frank Yuan, a former Taiwan-based apparel middleman, who dealt with Wal-Mart in the 1980s, puts the number, including indirect imports, at around 40 percent from "day one." Either way, Walton's vision was a harbinger of far vaster global sourcing today.

And it is a far cry from the picture that many Americans have of the legendary founder of Wal-Mart: "Mr. Sam," the folk hero, who drove around the Ozarks in a pickup truck buying cheap goods for his early discount stores and who became the architect of Wal-Mart's highly publicized "Buy American" campaign in the late 1980s and early '90s.

In truth, Walton's "Buy American" campaign did rescue some U.S. manufacturers, but only those who followed his playbook. In a letter he wrote to suppliers in 1985, he made clear he was committed to buying U.S. goods only if they upgraded their operations and improved productivity to "fill our requirements."

"We're not interested in charity here; we don't believe in subsidizing substandard work or inefficiency," Walton wrote in his 1992 autobiography Made in America. "So our primary goal became to work with American manufacturers, and see if our formidable buying power could help them deliver the goods, and in the process, save some American manufacturing jobs."

As one retired senior Wal-Mart executive explained: "Sam wanted everything possible [made] in the U. S., but he was not going to pay [extra] for it to stay. The main thing he asked was: 'Is it good for our customers?' If not, we went and made it overseas."

And so it is equally true -- and far less well known -- that Sam Walton was the architect of Wal-Mart's unpublicized "Buy Asia" program.

Wal-mart is the last real monopoly on Earth. I'm guilty myself of supporting it. Its out of convenience that I do so. The 24/7 superstore hours are mostly to blame. Its the only thing open when I get off work. That's when I do my shopping. Originally it probably did support American products. Then the money started rolling in and they found out that to spend less on cheaper products they could make larger profits. Nobody in retail is above greed, not even Sam Walton.

Hold off until Black Friday / Cyber Monday because we will have a few different winches at bottom dollar prices during our sale!

Follow here for updates:

https://atvconnection.com/forums/fix...nday-sale.html

Any details on this yet? Wanting to order soon.

Thanks OPT

Check back when the timer hits 0, you will find everything on that page discounted at that time. Should have 1 or 2 more sneak peeks before the sale.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Anyone running a KFI winch? I found a kit that has everything for $238 Shipped to my door. Let me know your thoughts.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/KFI-2500LBS-Winch-Kit-Winch-Mount-For-2005-2007-Polaris-Sportsman-800-EFI/131618750670?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D38530%26meid%3D63b7aef7f8404af48f565f1e08770455%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D111788123625