Why Foreman Searches Return a Rancher

One row, two machines, both names printed

Search one of these two model names and rows for the other come back. The reason is visible in the row titles themselves, and it takes one table to show: 5 Camso machine rows for this make name both machines at once.

Read those rows as what they are. They are not rows about a machine; they are rows about a kit, listing the machines the kit is published against. The two names are in the title because both machines are on the same row, and there is no version of that row that carries one name without misdescribing what it covers.

The other manufacturer also joins two model names in a single title — and not the same two. On this make the pairings each side publishes are:

• Camso: Foreman + Rancher on 5 rows.
• Kimpex: Foreman + Rubicon on 20 rows.

No pairing appears on both sides. So a reader who has learned that one of these names travels with a second name has learned it for one manufacturer’s list and not the other’s, and the same machine can arrive joined to a different stablemate depending on which list they are on.

Which name each list drops, and where

The join is only half of it. The other half is that where one side prints both names, the other frequently prints one — and grouping every row by the displacement its title carries shows exactly which name goes missing and at which size.

There are 2 displacements where Camso names both machines and Kimpex names exactly one of them — 400, 420 — and it is not the same name each time. At 400 the name Kimpex does not print is Rancher. At 420 the name Kimpex does not print is Foreman. So the name that goes missing flips between the two sizes, which is why no single rule of thumb about these two machines survives contact with both lists.

This is the mechanism behind the search result. You type the name on your fender. One list has that name on a row shared with another machine; the other list, at that displacement, does not carry the name at all. The result set is a mixture, and nothing on it explains why.

The practical consequence: an empty result under your model name does not mean your machine is uncovered. Search the other name in the pair, then search the TRX code, then check the rows at your displacement in the table above. If a row names both machines, it covers yours — the shared title is the kit’s coverage list, not a different quad.

At 300, 350, 650, 700 only Camso publishes a row; Kimpex publishes no application at those displacements. Both are absences of a published application: that manufacturer has not published a mount kit under that title. Neither says anything about what could be made to work, so if the displacement you want sits on only one side, a fitment desk with both catalogues open is the next call.

Why the titles are built that way

The naming is downstream of the part numbering, and that is checkable rather than a theory. Within one Camso system this make has 17 distinct kit references, and 5 of them are filed against more than one machine title:

The widest of them carries 3 different model names — Foreman, Rancher and Rubicon — across 3 row titles and 3 different displacement figures. A reference that covers that many model names cannot be given a title that names one machine, and a catalogue built from those references inherits that.

The other side of the catalogue is built the opposite way: every Kimpex row for this make carries its own reference — 82 references against 82 rows, one each. So Kimpex rows can be titled per machine and per trim, and they are. Neither approach is an error. One document is indexed by part, the other by machine, and an owner searching a name is searching both at once without being told which is which.

Carry that distinction to the parts counter, because it changes what a reference proves. A Camso reference names a kit and the machines it is published against; a Kimpex reference names a machine. So quoting a Camso reference does not on its own confirm that it is the one for your quad — quote the reference, the row title it came from and your model year together, and let the counter match all three. The same two-catalogues-two-units problem turns up on the Kawasaki designation page, on a make where the two row counts happen to come out level.

A spelling that hides rows from the correct search

One more reason a search misses rows, and this one is a defect rather than a convention. 2 row titles in this make spell the model name with a letter missing:

• TRX500FA6 4x4 Forman Rubicon Auto DCT IRS EPS (2016) [WS4]
• TRX500FA7 4x4 Forman Rubicon Auto DCT IRS EPS Deluxe (2016) [WS4]

A search on the correct spelling does not reach those rows, and a reader who finds the rest of the family has no way to know they are missing. The row exists and is spelled that way as read on 2026-09-26. So if the year or trim you want is not in your results, try the name with the letter dropped before concluding there is no application for it.

What the shared rows say about modification

13 of the 105 machine rows for this make carry a published manufacturer condition, and every one of them is on the side that publishes conditions at all. 2 of those are rows that name both machines — so the flag is published against both at once, and an owner of either one is being told the same thing.

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.

Camso defines its flags in the legend printed at the head of each page of its application guide. The two that appear on this make’s rows read:

B* Suspension lift kit required
K* Temporary vehicule modificationCamso ATV/UTV Track System Application Guide, August 2026 revision, read 2026-09-26. The guide’s own spelling is kept — including the spelling of the second entry.

The catalogue’s wording of that second condition is not identical to the legend’s, and no published concordance between the two exists — so when you ask about a flag, quote it exactly as the row prints it rather than paraphrasing it into the legend’s words.

There is a trap in the flags worth naming, and it sits at 4 displacements, both of the ones this page is about among them. At 350 the catalogue holds 2 Camso rows, 1 of them flagged and 1 not. At 400 the catalogue holds 2 Camso rows, 1 of them flagged and 1 not. At 420 the catalogue holds 4 Camso rows, 2 of them flagged and 2 not. At 500 the catalogue holds 6 Camso rows, 3 of them flagged and 3 not. At 4 of them a flagged row and an unflagged row record the same rear-suspension value, so the model-year span is the only published field between them. Nothing in either list says why one row carries a condition and its neighbour does not. So check the year span on the row, not just the model name: landing on the unflagged row for a machine whose year sits on the flagged one is how a lift kit turns up as a surprise at the till.

What the flags do not say is what comes off the machine, what the lift kit has to clear, or whether the parts go back on. Camso publishes the flag and its definition and stops. Take the flag and the year span from the table above to whoever is fitting the set and ask three things: what part interferes, what the lift kit consists of, and whether everything removed goes back on. If you are fitting the set yourself, the frames worth taking while the machine is apart are listed on documenting an install.

What to have in hand before you order

The model code, not the name. On this make the code is the only identifier that appears on one side of the catalogue in full and resolves to one machine: the names are shared across rows, the displacement figure repeats across references, and at two sizes the two lists do not even agree on which of the two names exists. A code and a model year settles all three at once.

If the code is not legible on the machine, the fallback is the model year plus the rear suspension type — rigid axle or independent — which is the field the catalogue records per row and the one that separates two otherwise identical titles. It is also the field the mounting hardware is chosen against, so getting it wrong costs you the mount kit rather than a phone call. Measuring your own wheel bolt pattern narrows it further, and it is a tape measure and five minutes.

Four things, then, on the sheet you take to the counter:

• The model code off the machine, photographed rather than copied out, plus the model year.
• Rear suspension: rigid axle or independent. Check it under the machine rather than trusting a brochure.
• The row title your machine matched and, if it names two models, that it names both — so the counter does not go looking for a separate reference that was never published.
• Any published condition on that row, in the catalogue’s own wording, with the year span it is published against.