Originally Posted by harleydog

Have the same problem hook is a most white

Originally Posted by Rambo JK

I purchased the Quadratec Q9500is Winch back in late February and my first impression of this unit was that it was very nice. The winch works perfect every time I have used it and I don't have any complaints there. Where the problem began was not even two months after I installed the Q9500is the stickers for the model number, warning label, free spool started fading really bad along with the paint finish. I called Quadratec and they said they have never heard of the paint finish fading and couldn't do anything about that, but they sent me new stickers free of charge. Gee.. Thanks.. Now I have pretty new stickers on a faded winch so basically just polished a turd. So once again two months later I have faded stickers again. Even the hook on the winch cable faded from bright yellow to almost white, like a dog turd in the sun.

Are any of you guys running this winch on your Jeep? Does it look this bad?

Originally Posted by stangmike1

I have the same winch and I purchased mine around the same time and it Looks like crap. That being said I called Quadratec and they shipped me a new winch to replace it. They said the paint was not the best and the problem had been addressed.