XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Audi A5 B8 CONVERTIBLE 2009-2016

The A5 B8 Convertible carries significantly more mass than the coupe from which it shares its platform – the folding soft-top mechanism, reinforced sills, additional floor bracing, and structural tie-bars that compensate for the absent fixed roof all add up. Audi’s factory dampers are calibrated around that extra weight, erring soft to smooth over the body flex inherent in any open-top body; the Super Sport approaches the same problem with a different set of tools.

This is a coilover kit oriented toward fast-road use with track-day capability – not a circuit-only setup, but a system with genuine adjustment range that gives an A5 Convertible owner something the factory specification never offered: the ability to engage with how the car is set up and change it to suit the road.

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

The 36-way damping adjustment covers an unusually wide range, which matters particularly on the B8 Convertible. The car’s extra kerb weight and open body structure mean small damping changes produce noticeable results – more so than on the stiffer coupe platform. Stiffen it for a track session at Brands or Oulton, soften it back for a weekend on the A-roads, and the gap between the two settings is tangible. Ride height adjustment changes the centre of gravity on a car that sits relatively high from the factory, which measurably tightens the handling balance once lowered. The Super Sport addresses the specific demands of a B8 Convertible used as it was intended – driven hard when the road invites it, liveable when it doesn’t.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s coilover for the driver who needs a single kit to handle both weekday use and Saturday circuit work. Its design priority is eliminating the ride harshness associated with stiff performance suspension – the crash and thump over surface imperfections that makes a dedicated track coilover impractical as a daily setup – without sacrificing the damper response needed at speed. The 36-way adjustment is what makes this dual use practical: a wide enough band to run the kit softly on a motorway cruise and firmly on a closed circuit, changed between the two without specialist tools or a suspension workshop visit. Ride height is adjustable independently, so the A5’s stance and spring preload can be optimised alongside damper settings. XYZ Racing positions the Super Sport as genuinely covering both weekend racing and everyday road use – the vendor’s own description sets that expectation explicitly, and the breadth of the adjustment range is the mechanism that makes it credible.

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

This kit is supplied against chassis code AU25, covering the A5 B8 Convertible body from 2009 to 2016. Confirm your build date and body variant before ordering – this fitment is specific to the cabriolet body and is not interchangeable with the coupe or Sportback variants built on the same B8 architecture.

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The Super Sport’s wide adjustment range means there is a setup in there for how you actually use the car – confirm your build date and configure yours below.