XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Audi R8 4WD (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2007-2014

The Type 42 R8’s mid-engined layout and quattro driveline give it a balance most supercars of its era could only chase, but the factory Magnetic Ride damping was always the compromise – clever on paper, expensive to replace, and increasingly unreliable as these cars push past a decade old. The XYZ Racing Street Advanced coilover replaces that ageing electronic system entirely, with a bundled cancellation kit that lets the R8’s ECU forget Magnetic Ride ever existed.

This is the kit for the R8 owner who wants the car to feel sharper than it did from the showroom floor, without converting it into a track-only proposition. Spring rates, ride height and damping all come back under the driver’s control, on a chassis that responds beautifully when you finally have authority over how it moves.

What this coilover does for your 2007-2014 Audi R8

Drop the nose half an inch and the R8’s already low-slung silhouette takes on the stance the design always implied. More important than the look is what 720-way damping adjustment unlocks underneath it – a usable spread between supple compliance for B-road work and tied-down body control when the surface smooths out and the V8 or V10 starts pulling hard. Turn-in firms up at the front axle, mid-corner attitude becomes adjustable on the throttle, and the quattro system gets a more predictable platform to deploy power through. The electronic cancellation module suppresses the dashboard warning and lets the suspension ECU sit dormant, so there is no fault-light hangover after install.

About the Street Advanced coilover

Street Advanced is XYZ Racing’s most popular kit and the one developed specifically for normal road use and occasional track days. The 720-way damping adjuster gives a genuinely fine-grained range from soft daily-driver settings through to firm circuit settings, all from a single knob per damper. Construction follows the rest of the XYZ catalogue – inverted monotube design for the strut-type corners, pillowball top mounts for direct steering feedback, and height adjustment that is independent of preload so spring travel is preserved at any ride height. The kit has been refined across years of XYZ’s professional racing programme and validated in international competition before being released for the street. Included with this AU44-C specification is the dedicated Magnetic Ride cancellation harness, which is the part that makes a coilover swap viable on this chassis without throwing the dash into protest mode.

Fitment for the Audi R8 (2007-2014)

This kit is built specifically for the Type 42 R8 quattro chassis (XYZ code AU44-C), covering the original 2007 launch through the facelift to the end of first-generation production in 2014. The cancellation harness is included as standard with this part number, so the kit fits both early cars and post-facelift cars regardless of whether Magnetic Ride was originally fitted.

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Pick your spring rates, top-mount style and any drop range below to configure the kit for how you actually use the car.