XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Audi S5 B8 4WD (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2007-2016

The B8 S5’s 4.2 FSI V8 sits ahead of the front axle in a way that defines how this car drives – nose-heavy, quattro-planted, and prone to washing wide on turn-in if the standard dampers are asked to do anything beyond a brisk A-road. The factory Audi Drive Select setup masks that mass on the road, but it also locks you out of meaningful suspension changes. This XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover for the 2007-2016 Audi S5 B8 ships with the electronic damping cancellation kit, so the ECU stops looking for a signal it can no longer find, and you take back full control of ride height and damper behaviour.

For a 4WD V8 grand tourer that the owner actually wants to drive on a B-road and bring to a Bedford SkidPan day, that handover matters. The Super Sport is XYZ’s fast-road-into-occasional-track spec, and on a B8 S5 it lets you load the front axle properly under braking without the rear going light.

What this coilover does for your 2007-2016 Audi S5 B8 4WD (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping)

Drop the nose 25-40 mm and the S5’s stance finally matches what the car has always promised visually – but the real gain is what happens after the corner entry. The 36-way damping adjustment lets you stiffen rebound to settle that long bonnet quicker out of compressions, then back off compression for the broken tarmac most UK drivers actually deal with. Front-end response sharpens because the springs are doing their job instead of the soft factory bushings absorbing the input. On a quattro car this also frees the diff to send torque to the rear earlier, which is how you start carrying speed through a third-gear sweeper rather than understeering through it. The cancellation module keeps the dash clean of suspension fault warnings – important on a B8 where any stored code throws Drive Select into a sulk.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport sits in XYZ’s range as the dual-purpose damper – engineered to deal with bumps and rough surfaces rather than punish you over them, which is the usual coilover trade-off. Ride height is fully adjustable at the spring perch, and the 36-way damping dial covers both compression and rebound in a single sweep, so you can run a softer setting for the morning commute and wind it up before a track session. The vendor specifies the Super Sport as suitable for both weekend race work and daily use, and the damper internals are tuned to back that up – high-performance valving that doesn’t crash through expansion joints. Construction is the same monotube architecture XYZ runs across the range, with rebuildable internals if you put serious mileage through them.

Fitment for the Audi S5 (2007-2016)

This kit fits the B8 generation S5 with quattro 4WD, chassis reference AU28-1-C, covering the full 2007-2016 production run. The included cancellation kit is specifically for cars factory-equipped with Audi’s electronic damping (magnetic ride / Drive Select adaptive dampers) – it intercepts the signal so swapping to passive coilovers does not throw a suspension fault to the cluster.

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Configure your spring rates and pick-up specification for the B8 S5 below.