Why these frames are worth taking
Camso flags conditions against individual applications and prints a legend defining the letters. It does not publish, anywhere, which component interferes, what a lift kit has to clear, which panels come off, or whether the machine returns to standard afterwards. Of the published ATV applications read on , 117 carry at least one published condition and 6 distinct condition strings occur across them. All of them sit on the 656 Camso rows; the 733 Kimpex rows publish no condition field at all.
Kimpex publishes no per-application condition data at all: every Commander WS4 record in this catalogue has an empty remarks field. The absence of a WS4 entry below means nobody has published a condition for it — not that none exists. Camso is the only manufacturer here that publishes these flags, so this page is necessarily a Camso view of the catalogue.
So a flag on your machine’s row is a pointer to a photograph. Nothing on a parts desk answers it — it takes a machine on a lift, a set of panels on the floor and somebody with a camera. If that is your afternoon, the record costs you twenty minutes and is worth more than anything written about the flag.
It is also worth having for yourself. The photographs are what let you put the machine back to standard in two years, argue a warranty point, or sell the set with the hardware it needs.
The shot list
The left column is the flag as the manufacturers publish it. The right column is what a photograph has to show for the flag to mean something concrete. Find your machine’s flags in Machines, then shoot the rows that apply.
| Published condition | Applications | What to photograph |
|---|---|---|
| Temporary body parts removal | 38 | every panel, guard and bracket that came off, laid out and counted, plus the machine with them removed — then a second frame once they are back on. Whether they all go back is the part the flag does not state |
| Temporary Vehicle modification | 36 | what was modified and what it was modified with, then the same area restored. Temporary is a claim about reversibility, and a pair of frames is the only thing that tests it |
| Vehicle with cargo box | 19 | the box, the rear track unit and the gap between them in one frame from behind, plus whatever had to move for the two to coexist |
| Permanent interference | 16 | the area the installer had to alter and could not put back, shot before the system went on and again after it came off. Camso publishes the flag and not the component, so the frame is the only thing that says what it was |
| Permanent vehicle modification | 14 | the altered area, close enough to read, with a tape or a socket in frame for scale. Camso prints this flag and does not define the work behind it |
| Suspension lift kit required | 14 | the lift components in place, and the standard parts they replaced laid out beside them. The flag tells you a lift is needed; the photograph tells the next owner how much hardware that actually is |
Two things matter more than the camera. Take the before frame first, of the standard machine, from a position you can stand in again — the after frame is worth little without something to compare it against. And put something of known size in the frame wherever the subject is small: a tape measure, a socket, a coin. A photograph of a gap with no scale in it is a photograph of a gap.
The frames this site does not have
The table above is what to shoot if your machine carries a flag. This section is the other half of the same list, and it is the one that says where this site stands: 4 frames are named as missing by pages that are already published, and not one of them has been taken. They are listed here rather than left implied, because a page that asks a reader to document an install while showing none of its own is asking for something it has not done.
Not shot yet. One install documented end to end by one person in one afternoon: the standard machine from four positions the photographer can stand in again, the plate on the system, the removed parts in a tray, the machine with the system fitted, and those same four positions after it comes off in spring. This page asks a reader for that record and cannot show one.
Each gap standing in a page carries the handle below, so a frame can be asked for by name rather than described a second time and described differently. The list is short because every entry is specific: none of them is a hero shot, and each one settles a question a manufacturer left open rather than illustrating a page that already works.
| Shot | The page that needs it | What the frame has to show |
|---|---|---|
| FN-PI-01 | What the permanent flag attaches to | One machine carrying the permanent-interference flag, on a lift: the standard rear end before the mount kit goes near it, the same view with the system fitted and the two parts in contact, and the same view again once the system comes off. A rule or a socket in frame for scale. Camso publishes two words and names no component, so the middle frame is the only thing that can say what the part was. |
| FN-BP-01 | What actually comes off | Every panel, guard and bracket a body-parts-removal install takes off, laid out on the floor and counted, with the machine in the same frame beside them — then the same machine after refit, showing what did not go back. The fender badge has to be legible: the rows carrying this flag name the Grizzly and the Kodiak in one title, so a frame nobody can attribute to one machine settles nothing. |
| FN-SUB-01 | A worked example of the record this page asks for (this page) | One install documented end to end by one person in one afternoon: the standard machine from four positions the photographer can stand in again, the plate on the system, the removed parts in a tray, the machine with the system fitted, and those same four positions after it comes off in spring. This page asks a reader for that record and cannot show one. |
| LW-USED-01 | A worn part beside an unworn one | Pairs in one frame, same light, same distance: a hooked drive sprocket tooth against a square one, cracking at the base of a lug against an uncracked belt, a frayed belt edge against a clean one, a slide worn thin against a full one. No manufacturer publishes a wear limit, so a comparison frame is the only reference an inspection has to hold a part against. |
Most of them need one machine, one person and an afternoon. The exception is the wear comparison, which needs a worn set and an unworn one in the same place at the same time — the harder ask, and the reason it is still outstanding on a page about buying used.
What to write down
These are the fields that cannot be reconstructed afterwards. Nobody remembers an hour-meter reading six months after a swap, and no photograph of a bracket can be taken once the bracket is bolted up.
- The machine. Make, model, model year, trim, and the exact wording on the fender badge. One machine is often filed under three names — see reading a Suzuki model code for the worst case of it.
- Its rear suspension. Rigid axle or independent. This is the field the mounting hardware is selected against, and the reason a set moved from one quad to another rarely arrives with the hardware it needs. Camso publishes a conversion accessory for that swap, documented on inspecting a used system.
- Which system. The brand and model of the track system, and the number on the plate — photographed, never typed out. See a 6622 serial is ambiguous for what a single wrong character costs you.
- Which published conditions your row carries, if any. The application tables in Machines will usually settle it from the make, model and year.
- What came off.Every part removed, counted, named as best you can, and photographed off the machine. “Some plastics” is not a record; eleven fasteners and two mud guards in a tray is.
- What went back on, and what did not. This is the single most useful line in the list, because it is the one that tests the word temporaryin the manufacturer’s own flag.
- What had to be bought that was not in the kit. Lift components, adapters, anti-rotation hardware, longer fasteners, a tool. Named, not priced.
- Dates and the hour meter. The date of the install and the reading when it went on. The hour meter is what turns a photograph into a wear record later.
Before you start unbolting
- Photograph the standard machine from four positions before anything comes off, and note where you stood.
- Photograph the plate on the track system and the model code on the machine, rather than copying either out.
- Put every removed fastener in a labelled bag and photograph the bags.
- Write the hour-meter reading and the date on the same sheet of paper as the parts list.
- Photograph the mount kit where it meets the hub, from both sides, before the wheel goes back on.
- Keep the originals rather than a messaging-app copy. A frame that has been through three chat apps is not the frame you took.
Sending it in
Not yet, for the reason at the top of this page: the licence, the release and the moderation policy do not exist, and nothing here accepts a file. Keep the record on your own machine and keep the originals.
If you have documented a flagged application and want it published once there is somewhere for it to go, say so through the form on the contact page. Describe what you have — the machine, the system, which published conditions its row carries, roughly how many frames — rather than attaching the photographs. There is no licence under which they could be accepted yet, and a frame sent before one exists is a frame nobody can use. Contact covers everything that is not an install record.
Camso publishes its condition flags and the legend that defines the letters. It does not publish which component interferes, what a lift kit has to clear, which panels come off, or whether the machine returns to standard afterwards. Ask the shop quoting the install what comes off your machine, and get the answer before you order.