XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Audi A5 B8 SPORTBACK 4WD (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2009-2016

CDC – Continuous Damping Control – is one of Audi’s less-discussed features on the B8 A5 Sportback, and one of the more significant practical obstacles when upgrading the suspension. The system monitors damper behaviour in real time; fit passive coilovers without a cancellation module and you’ll trigger persistent ECU fault codes before the car has covered a mile. This Super Sport fitment includes that cancellation hardware as part of the package.

With the OEM electronics resolved, the quattro Sportback takes well to the Super Sport brief – a 36-way adjustable passive damper covering the ground between daily commuting and a firm, settled fast-road or track day setup, with ride-height adjustment that addresses the wheel gap and body roll this heavier five-door platform carries over the coupe.

What this coilover does for your 2009-2016 Audi A5 B8 SPORTBACK 4WD

The B8 A5’s front-heavy quattro weight distribution means the standard suspension works constantly to manage understeer tendencies while keeping the body compliant under mixed loads. The Super Sport’s 36-way damping range opens up that balance directly: softer settings absorb uneven surfaces without transmitting them through the Sportback’s longer, heavier body, while firmer settings tighten the front axle’s initial response and reduce the latent yaw through corners that the quattro system’s front-biased torque split tends to mask. Ride-height adjustment lowers the centre of gravity of a body style that carries considerably more roof height than the coupe variant, improving corner entry attitude and visual stance alike.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is the XYZ Racing range intended for fast-road and weekend track use, with 36-way damping adjustment as its defining specification. Rather than a binary comfort-or-sport switch, 36 discrete steps give you genuinely different behaviour across the range – from a setting that handles variable surfaces without jarring the cabin, to a firm configuration that holds the body flat through repeated direction changes. Height adjustment is built in, and the system is specified to cover both regular road use and driving events in the same car without a rebuild between the two. XYZ describes the Super Sport as suited to "weekend race and daily use"; the 36-way range is what makes that dual-purpose claim workable rather than aspirational.

Fitment for the Audi A5 B8 SPORTBACK 4WD (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) (2009-2016)

This set fits the B8-generation Audi A5 Sportback in quattro four-wheel-drive specification, chassis code AU28-C, covering 2009 to 2016 model years including the B8.5 facelift. The kit includes the electronic damping cancellation hardware required on CDC-equipped cars – confirm your car’s build specification before ordering to establish whether CDC is fitted.

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