XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Audi A5 B8 SPORTBACK (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2009-2016

Fitting aftermarket coilovers to a DCC-equipped B8 A5 Sportback is straightforward until the moment you disconnect the factory adaptive dampers and the dash lights up with suspension fault codes. This fitment includes the cancellation hardware needed to silence those warnings, letting the XYZ Racing Super Sport system run cleanly without the factory electronics fighting the setup.

For a Sportback owner who crosses between long motorway runs and the occasional track day, the Super Sport sits in exactly the right place in the XYZ range. The B8 platform carries its weight forward – front-biased even in quattro form – and getting the nose to respond with any precision on a fast B-road requires damper control that the DCC system, calibrated for comfort-first cruising, was never set up to deliver.

What this coilover does for your 2009-2016 Audi A5 B8 Sportback

Thirty-six-way damping adjustment transforms the range of available setups: firm the compression for a track morning, then ease it back for the drive home without touching the ride height. On the B8 quattro chassis, where front axle load is significant, fine-tuning the front damping independently of the rear is where you begin to address the corner-entry understeer that the stock geometry encourages. Adjustable ride height means you can close the arches without sacrificing driveability on UK roads. Eliminating the DCC dependency also removes the car’s tendency to shift behaviour mid-corner as the adaptive system hunts between programmes.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s crossover between fast-road and weekend competition, built for owners who want meaningful improvement over OEM without committing to a setup that punishes them in traffic. Reduced sensitivity over broken surfaces is a design priority – not a byproduct of the spring rate change – which matters on a heavier GT platform like the A5. Thirty-six-way damping adjustment covers the full range from track-stiff to comfortable daily, while ride height adjustment lets you set the stance and the corner weighting separately. For DCC-equipped cars, the cancellation kit is a core part of this solution rather than an optional extra, ensuring the conversion runs without persistent fault codes or suspension warning lights throughout the A5 B8 Sportback’s 2009-2016 model run.

Fitment for the Audi A5 B8 Sportback (2009-2016)

This kit is designed to chassis code AU27-C, covering the B8-generation Audi A5 Sportback across its 2009 to 2016 production run in variants equipped with Audi’s electronic DCC damping system. The cancellation kit is an integral part of the fitment – confirm your car’s factory damping specification before ordering, as the non-DCC B8 Sportback fitment is catalogued separately.

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