Westin MAX Winch Mounting Tray - Black Powder Coated Steel

Video Transcript for Review of Westin Winch Mounting Tray - W25VM

Hi everyone. Steve here with "etrailer.com." Let's take a look at our Weston Max winch mounting tray with the black powder coated finish over steel. Now this is a custom fit application. It's gonna fit 2019 through 2024 Ram 25 and 3,500 series pickups. I always recommend that you double check the fit guide here in etrailer.com. Keep in mind that sometimes these videos could be outdated and they could potentially fit newer year makes and models as well.

Now this is just the custom winch tray and it will let you mount that recovery windshield separately to the front of your vehicles by using pre-drilled holes that can accommodate most major winch brands and capacity winches between eight to 12,000 capacity. Now the line pool capacity of this plate is rated for 16,500 pounds and you can also get bull bars that would attach to this, chrome face plates and even tow hooks. If you're looking for a whole assembly, I recommend maybe the Weston HDX with included grill guard and punch plate altogether, item number #W52VM and that would give you a whole assembly there and everything as a great start as well. Again, that's all sold separately as one complete kit. Again, you get all the million hardware, fish flyers, all the brackets included.

All these brackets are very nicely labeled with the letter of which side they are. I believe this one here is a passenger. Yeah, so P the passenger and then the driver's side one, D for driver. So they've made it really easy as far as all that goes. And if I spin this round, you can see just the the build quality.

This is about a quarter inch thick, heavy duty steel. Obviously they've got all the holes pre-drilled like I mentioned. So install should be a breeze. Obviously it'll take a little time getting everything in line and whatnot. But again, that powder coat finish is gonna be great for keeping rough corrosion and those kind of things at bay.

And these two side slots here looks like you could probably mount a light recess back in here and have a light shining out. So that's kind of neat. And these long mounting brackets on the sides here, one for passenger, one for driver, those are gonna be your main ones that slide into the frame of the front of that vehicle. There will be some trimming of the front plastic fascia down there by the bumper from what I can tell from the instruction. So keep that in mind. But other than that, you shouldn't have to worry about drilling and those kind of things. So that is gonna wrap it up for our quickly build-it folks, I'm Steven. We look forward to seeing pictures of this installed on your vehicle. Have a good one.