Identify
The work that happens before fitment. What is this machine called, what is bolted to it already, and which of the several names each manufacturer uses will actually find your rows.
Why identification comes first
Every fitment tool starts by asking for year, make and model, and on a quad that is where people get stuck — not because they do not know what they ride, but because the catalogue frequently files it under a different name than the one on the fender. A 2018 Alterra is recorded under a badge the manufacturer retired. CFMOTO’s model line is spelled two different ways by the two track manufacturers. Honda files two model names under one row title. Suzuki has three spellings in circulation for one machine.
None of that is in the fitment tool’s dropdown, and all of it decides whether you find your rows. The other half of the problem arrives with a used machine: the decals are gone, there is no paperwork, and the serial family is shared between two generations of system.
What to have in hand before you search
- The model year, and the badge the manufacturer filed it under that year rather than the one on the plastic. The Textron badge years are the standard trap: search one name and the rows filed under the other do not appear.
- The full model designation, letters and digits included. Kawasaki’s KVF and KLF prefixes and Suzuki’s LT-A codes find rows that the name on the tank will not.
- Which rear suspension the machine has. Camso splits some designations into a flagged row and an unflagged one on rear suspension rather than on model year, so it can decide which conditions apply to your machine — see Remark K on the TRX420.
- Your bolt pattern, measured rather than assumed: two diagonals and a tape measure, with the figures written down before you call anyone.
- On a used machine, the serial off the system and photographs of one unit and the mount hardware. That is what narrows an unmarked system to a family, and a 6622 serial is ambiguous without the model year beside it.
- 01Arctic Cat or Textron?
Your 2018 Alterra is filed under a badge that no longer exists.
- 02Decoding a Pre-Alterra Arctic Cat
Before the Alterra name, the model line read as displacement and trim. Here is how those map to published rows.
- 03CForce, UForce, ZForce
Which one is the quad, and why the dealer's only CFMOTO page is about the other thing.
- 04Reading a Suzuki Model Code
King Quad, KingQuad, LT-A500 — three spellings of one machine, and the one the catalogue uses.
- 05Measuring Your Own Bolt Pattern
Two diagonals and a tape measure. What to record, and what to send the fitment desk.
- 06A 6622 Serial Is Ambiguous
The Camoplast-era system and the current one share a serial family. The model year is what separates them.
- 07Is That an R4S?
Eight-inch tracks front and rear, a smaller footprint, and a product page that now 404s. How to tell, and what parts still exist.
- 08An Unmarked System in a Barn
No decals, no paperwork. What to measure and photograph to narrow it to a family.
- 09KVF, KLF, Brute Force, Prairie
Reading a Kawasaki designation.
- 10Why Foreman Searches Return a Rancher
Camso files both under one row title.
- 11Which Wolverine Do You Have?
X2, X4, RMAX — and which are quads at all.
- 12Camoplast Tatou and Tatou Original
Identifying the predecessor line.
- 13TJD X-Gen and X-Track
Where the parts documentation actually lives now.