XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Audi Q5 FY 4WD (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2017-2026

The FY-generation Q5 was never built to be thrown down a sealed stage. It rides high, carries weight over the front axle, and leans on Audi’s electronic damping to mask a body that wants to roll. Strip out that adaptive system and you expose what the chassis actually is: a 4WD platform with proper grip potential, held back by factory calibration aimed at school-run comfort.

The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover for the Audi Q5 FY 4WD is the answer for owners running sealed-surface stages who need the suspension to do the work the standard car refuses to. Crucially, this kit ships with the cancellation module for the electronic damping system, so the OE controller stops throwing fault codes the moment the original struts come out.

What this coilover does for your 2017-2026 Audi Q5 FY 4WD

The Tarmac Rally tune drops body roll on turn-in so the Q5’s nose finally commits to an apex instead of washing wide. Damping is set up to soak the big single hits you take cresting a brow or clipping a kerb at stage pace, while still controlling the secondary movement that unsettles a tall 4WD car mid-corner. Tyre contact stays consistent over broken tarmac, which is the whole point – traction off slow exits is where this chassis gives time away, and a settled rear under power claws it back. Ride height comes down to a usable rally stance without compromising the suspension travel you need when the surface deteriorates. With the electronic damping cancellation kit in the loop, the dashboard stays clean and the car drives as one coherent setup rather than two systems fighting each other.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is XYZ Racing’s dedicated sealed-stage damper, and the settings come directly from the company’s own Tarmac Rally race programme rather than a generic catalogue tune. It is built to absorb the impact of uneven pavement – the sudden jolts when the car crosses larger bumps – and to suppress the body movement that follows, keeping the tyre loaded and tracking the surface. The result is a damper that holds the car stable through compression and rebound cycles tight enough that the driver can read the road through the steering rather than guess at it. For the FY Q5, that translates into a 4WD platform that finally hooks up out of slow corners and stays composed over crested straights. Because Audi runs adaptive damping as standard on most FY-spec Q5 cars, the kit includes the cancellation module needed to disable the factory system cleanly and prevent warning lights once the OE struts are removed.

Fitment for the Audi Q5 (2017-2026)

This kit fits the Audi Q5 FY 4WD with the original electronic damping system, chassis code AU50-C, covering the 2017 to 2026 model years. The included cancellation kit is specific to FY cars that left the factory with Audi’s adaptive damper control, so confirm your car has that system before ordering.

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