Check oil consumption
I have done 70,000km on my XT 600e and occasionally it smokes when I start up, I have put this down to a valve stem oil seal leaking when the engine stops with a valve open, it does not do it all the time and does not smoke under normal use.My wifes XT on the other hand does not do this, same year similar milage
my bike uses no more oil now than it did at 10,000ks so I decided to ignore the smoke under start up.
Check your oil consumption over a 500km run and if its minimal don,t worry about it.
I am a bike mechanic and the old adage applies if it aint broke don,t fix it, all XT,s have there peculiarities, mine has had a rattle on start up from day one, its the same rattle today.
Great bikes the XT,s and fairly agricultural, not a lot goes wrong with these at your milage
Hope this helps
Pete
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