Reading a Suzuki Model Code

Three names for one machine

The machine on the fender badge is a KingQuad. The catalogue holds it three ways, and which one is in front of a searcher depends entirely on which manufacturer published the row.

• Camso writes it as two words — King Quad — behind a leading displacement figure, and folds several trims into one row title.
• Kimpex writes it as one word — KingQuad — behind a hyphenated model code, and splits the trims into separate rows.
• Some rows carry neither name, because the machine was sold under an earlier badge: Eiger, Vinson, Twin Peaks, QuadRunner, QuadMaster.

There is no spelling that finds all of them. The Camso convention and the Kimpex convention do not share a substring longer than the word itself, and the earlier badges share nothing with either.

What the code-led titles carry

The Kimpex rows are led by a model code of the form LT- plus a letter, three displacement digits, and one or more trailing letters, followed by the marketing name. The following patterns are readable directly off the published row titles:

• Every code-led row whose trim token is AS, ASi or AXi begins LT-A.
• Every code-led row whose trim token is FS or FSi begins LT-F.
• Every code-led row that states 2x4 in its title stops at the three displacement digits; every row that states 4x4 carries at least one letter after them.
• The trailing P and Z letters travel with the power-steering and limited-edition trims in the same titles, but not without exception, so they are not reliable on their own.

These are patterns in the published row titles, not Suzuki’s own decode. Use them to match a code you are holding against a row in the catalogue; do not read a letter you have never seen and assume what it means.

The two conventions side by side

Grouped by the displacement each title carries, these are the machine rows the two manufacturers publish for this make, in their own words. Find your displacement, then find your machine in both columns — that pair of names is what you want in front of you when you talk to a fitment desk. Published conditions sit under the individual row that carries them, not against the displacement: several of these groups hold both a flagged machine and an unflagged one.

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.

Two things fall out of the join that neither manufacturer’s own list shows on its own. The Camso row for the smallest KingQuad names both the automatic and the foot-shift codes in a single row title, where Kimpex publishes them as separate rows — so one published Camso application covers two machines that Kimpex treats as two. And the earlier badges collect under the same displacements as the current machines, which is how a Vinson and a KingQuad end up adjacent in a search that was meant to return one of them.

There is a third thing, and it is the one most likely to cost somebody an order. The catalogue carries 5 machine names for this make appearing on more than one row, split only by model year:

• 450 LTA King Quad — 2007 and 2008–2009
• LT-A500XP KingQuad AXi EPS — 2009–2012 and 2015–2023
• LT-A500XPZ KingQuad AXi SE EPS — 2009–2010 and 2016–2019
• LT-A750X KingQuad AXi — 2008–2009 and 2011–2023
• LT-A750XPZ KingQuad AXI SE EPS — 2009–2010 and 2015–2018

Same published name, same displacement, separate rows. The model year is what resolves which one applies, and a search on the name alone returns both while indicating neither. In every one of these cases the two rows resolve to different kit references within the same system, so the split is not cosmetic.

The rows that carry two conditions at once

2 of the 45 machine rows for this make carry more than one published condition, and the combination is the same on each:

• 500 King Quad / AXi / X / XC / XP / XPZ / LE / Power Steering / SE / SE+ / Camo (2009-2025) — Suspension lift kit requiredPermanent interference
• 750 King Quad / AXi / X / XC / XP / XPZ / LE / Power Steering / SE / SE+ / Camo (2008-2025) — Suspension lift kit requiredPermanent interference

Camso defines both of those flags in the legend printed at the head of every page of its application guide:

B* Suspension lift kit required
G* Permanent interferenceCamso ATV/UTV Track System Application Guide, August 2026 revision, read 2026-09-26

What the legend does not say, anywhere, is what interferes. It does not name the component, it does not say whether the interference is with the track frame or the mount kit, and it does not say what the lift kit has to clear — so those are three questions for the shop. An owner reading Permanent interference and Suspension lift kit required on one row is being told two things by the manufacturer: that a part has to be bought which is not in the track kit, and that something about the result is not reversible. Which part, and which something, is not published.

It matters that the two flags arrive together, because they land on different parts of the decision. The lift kit is a second purchase and a second install, on top of the track kit and the vehicle-specific hardware; the permanent interference is a change to the machine that does not come back out when the tracks do. If you are buying to keep the quad, budget for the first. If you might sell it on wheels, ask about the second before the spanners come out.

The same legend carries a standing qualifier above the letters, which applies to every row including the unflagged ones:

Minor modification and light interference are possible on any modelCamso ATV/UTV Track System Application Guide, August 2026 revision, read 2026-09-26

One thing to keep in mind reading the table: every code-led row in it is a Commander WS4 row, and every one shows no condition — not because those machines are known to need nothing, but because Kimpex publishes no condition data of any kind. So an empty condition cell on a WS4 row tells you nothing about the work, and if you are pricing a WS4 the only way to find out what comes off your machine is to ask the shop.

A flag the manufacturer prints and does not define

Another row for this make carries a condition of a different kind: 500 Quad Runner (1998-2002), Permanent vehicle modification.

In Camso’s published guide the remark cell on that row holds a single letter, and that letter is not one of the nine the legend defines. The legend on every page of the August 2026 revision defines A, B, C, E, F, G, H, J and K. The letter printed against this row is D, and no definition of D appears anywhere in that revision. Read 2026-09-26.

The catalogue nevertheless renders that flag as words. Across the whole catalogue, 7 machine titles in 3 makes — Arctic Cat, Honda, Suzuki — carry the same condition string, and each corresponds to a guide row whose remark cell prints the undefined letter. The wording is not in the guide, so there is no published definition behind it.

If your row is one of them, you are holding a flag with no definition, and the plain-language version of it is not the manufacturer’s. Put the question to Camso or to an installing dealer and get the answer in writing before you order, because a condition you cannot read is the one most likely to turn up as extra labour on the invoice.

There is a second divergence in the same corner of the catalogue, and it is the one most likely to catch an owner of an older machine. The QuadRunner and the QuadMaster are two machines of the same displacement sold in overlapping years, and Camso’s guide separates them in the model cell itself: one is qualified as the manual-shift machine, the other as the automatic. The row titles drop both qualifiers. If you have one of these, the transmission is part of your identification — say manual or automatic when you ask, because the name and the displacement do not separate them and one of the two carries a published condition.

Ordering against a code rather than a name

The code is the thing worth writing down before contacting anybody. A marketing name plus a year is ambiguous across this make in at least three ways — two naming conventions, an earlier badge under the same displacement, and two rows sharing one title. A model code and a model year is not.

Where to get it: it is on the machine’s compliance label and on your registration or title paperwork, usually alongside the frame VIN. If neither turns it up, give a dealer the frame VIN and ask them to confirm the model code against it. Write down the code, the model year, the rear-suspension layout and — on the pre-KingQuad badges — whether it is the manual or the automatic. Those four things resolve every ambiguity described above.

The derived application rows for this make, with sprocket pairs and rear suspension per row, are at Suzuki KingQuad track applications.