Polaris Prospector Pro 2.0

Two kits, one name

Polaris sells one ATV track family — Prospector Pro 2.0 — in two kits. One covers the mid-size Sportsman line, the other the full-size machines, and both carry the same manufacturer list price. The mount is a separate purchase, and the kit page says so plainly: Requires Tracks and Track Mounts.

That is the first thing to get straight, because the product is called a track system and it still needs a mount kit chosen for your chassis. Budget both.

Which Sportsman it goes on

The split between the two kits is by machine size, and it is worth knowing before you start pricing. The mid-size kit is listed for the Sportsman 450 H.O., the 570 family — Trail, Premium, EPS, Ultimate, Utility HD, X2 and Touring — and the newer Sportsman 500 and 600 models. A Scrambler XP 1000 S turns up on that list too, and on the full-size one, which is the reason to read the year and trim on the kit page instead of matching by model name.

The full-size kit is listed for the Sportsman 850 and XP 1000 lines, the XP 1000 S, Touring 850 and Touring XP 1000, and the Scrambler 850 and XP 1000. Its list reaches back to mid-2010s XP 1000 machines, which is further back than most buyers expect from an accessory page.

The mount is chosen by chassis geometry rather than by model name. The mid-size mount 2889218 is described as high-clearance and engineered for models with arched A-arms; 2889219 covers Sportsman 570 and 450 machines; 2883977 is the XP 1000 S mount; and 2879457 is the full-size mount. Polaris tells you to check the instructions before you buy rather than trusting the model name:

Prior to purchasing, always check the installation instructions to ensure that the mount or track kits fit your ATV and that you have all of the necessary tools and hardware.polaris.com, help-center article ATV Track Kits (KA-01383), read 2026-09-26

What Polaris claims for the 2.0

The 2.0 is a revision of the earlier Prospector Pro, and the claims on the product page are made against that predecessor rather than against wheels: minimized track slip for climbing and deep-snow traction, a top speed improved by approximately 5% over prior models, lower operating RPM for a quieter ride and less engine wear, a new front dual stabilizer, and hub geometry Polaris calls exclusive that reduces steering effort.

The claim worth reading twice is the lug, which Polaris says lifts up in deep snow as opposed to digging down — that, plus the Flex-Track description of the belt itself, tells you what the system is tuned for. It is a snow machine first. Mud, marsh and muskeg are named too, but the engineering story is about staying on top of powder rather than clawing through it.

What actually differs about buying OEM

The price is public before you walk in. Every part number above carries a printed manufacturer list price on polaris.com. The pages are marked Available At Dealer Only, so you cannot check out online — but you can arrive at the counter already knowing the number, which is not something every manufacturer in this category lets you do.

The warranty can ride on the vehicle’s. This is the real argument for OEM and it is worth money. Polaris covers accessories for one year, and then adds a clause most buyers never read:

The applicable PG&A warranty starts from the consumer purchase date (verified via receipt) or the factory vehicle warranty, whichever is greater. […] Factory-installed parts and accessories are covered for the duration of the manufacturer's Factory Warranty for both parts and labor.polaris.com parts, apparel and accessory warranty, read 2026-09-26

Read that against the calendar, because it is worth money twice. Buy the tracks early in a machine’s life and the accessory cover runs to whichever ends later, the twelve months or the vehicle warranty — buy them in year four and you get the twelve months. And factory-installed accessories are covered for parts and labor for as long as the vehicle warranty runs, where an accessory added afterwards is parts only once that warranty expires. Which of those two an install at your dealer counts as is a question to settle with the dealer, in writing, before the labor is booked.

The parts channel is one channel. A worn bogie wheel or a bent stabilizer is a part number you can hand to any Polaris dealer, and the installation instructions list which service kit each replacement lives in. Polaris also excludes accessories bought from an unauthorized dealer or retailer from warranty cover entirely — so the marketplace bargain on a boxed kit is a real risk, not a theoretical one.

The labor is not trivial. Polaris rates the full-size mount as Ease of installation: Medium with an installation recommendation of Moderate. Mounts go on once and stay on; the tracks themselves come on and off seasonally.

The honest trade

What you give up is breadth. Polaris builds tracks for Polaris machines, on Polaris’s list, and the two kits above are the whole ATV range. Ride a Honda, Yamaha, Can-Am, Suzuki, Arctic Cat or CFMOTO and this is not a route at all — cross-brand systems are where those machines are served, and the published applications by make are the place to start.

Even inside the Polaris line the list is specific: particular models, particular years, particular trims. An older Sportsman that predates the list is outside it, and no amount of badge loyalty changes that.

What you get back is a system designed around one chassis by the company that drew the chassis. Mount variants exist for arched A-arms and for high clearance because Polaris knows which of its own machines have them. Nobody has to interpret an adapter table, and nobody has to argue about whose part failed when something breaks — there is one warranty and one parts counter.

The trade-offs, as Polaris publishes them

Three things follow from one manufacturer owning both ends of this purchase, and all three are read from what Polaris publishes rather than inferred from the arrangement.

• The fit list is one make wide. Polaris publishes kits, mounts and fit lists for Polaris machines, by model, year and trim. There is no published Prospector application for any other make, and an older Sportsman that predates the list has no published application either — which is an absence in the list, not a statement about the machine.
• The warranty term is stated, and it is conditional. The accessory term runs to whichever is greater of its own twelve months and the remaining vehicle warranty. What that is worth therefore depends on where the machine is in its own cover, and it is largest on a machine being bought now — which is a fact about the term rather than advice about when to order.
• One counter answers for the whole install. Mount variants are published for arched A-arms and for high clearance because the same company drew both the mount and the chassis, so there is no adapter table to interpret and one parts desk owns the result. Nothing published quantifies what that integration is worth against a cross-brand system, and this site does not supply a figure where the manufacturers publish none.

If the quad is not a Polaris, the published record has nothing here for it. The other manufacturer that answers the fitment question itself rather than through a table is Mattracks, which rates the EZ ATV by weight.