If you've bought a new proline rope, and you dont already know, stretch it a bit! here's what we did. We hooked this brand new one to the truck and my car, and stretched it from 75' to about 82, then relaesed the tention and it ended up being about 77' without any tention on it...stretched 2 inches or so...also got about 2 inches of stretch out of the handle! here's a pic, its the green mainline