XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — BMW 5 SERIES F10 4WD (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2010-2017

The F10 5 Series xDrive is a heavy, long-wheelbase executive saloon that was never built with stage rallying in mind – which is exactly why a tarmac-spec coilover for it is such a specific tool. Strip out the factory Dynamic Damper Control, and the chassis suddenly wants a damper that can cope with kerb strikes, broken sealed surfaces and the weight transfer of a 1.8-tonne car being driven in anger.

This XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally kit is built for that job on the F10 4WD platform. It includes the electronic damping cancellation hardware required to bypass the EDC loom cleanly, so the car runs on fully mechanical, manually-adjustable suspension without throwing fault codes at the dash.

What this coilover does for your 2010-2017 Bmw 5 Series F10 4WD

The 4WD F10 carries its mass high and forward over the front axle, and on a stock damper the rear can feel under-tied when the road surface breaks up. A tarmac-rally-spec damper changes that immediately – the car settles faster between direction changes, the front end stops floating mid-corner, and the xDrive system has something firmer to react against when it shuffles torque rearward.

Across rough sealed stages and patched B-roads, the damper soaks up sharp inputs that would otherwise unload a tyre, keeping the contact patch planted through compressions. With the EDC cancellation kit fitted, you also recover the steering feel that the electronic system tends to mute – inputs at the wheel arrive at the front axle without the soft, processed layer in between.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is engineered specifically to absorb the impact of uneven sealed surfaces – the kind of broken tarmac, kerbs and mid-corner ridges that define a sealed-stage rally. It is built to take the jolt of big bumps without packing down, suppressing body shock so the tyre stays loaded and traction stays available.

That stability is the point. The damping settings carry over directly from XYZ Racing’s own Tarmac Rally programme, so the calibration is not a fast-road compromise dressed up with a rally badge – it is derived from competition use on the surface this kit is named for. The cancellation kit included with this BM85-C variant takes care of the F10’s electronic damping loom, letting the mechanical damper do its job without the factory ECU fighting it.

Fitment for the Bmw 5 Series F10 4WD (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) (2010-2017)

This kit is chassis-coded BM85-C and fits the F10-generation 5 Series xDrive saloon, 2010 through 2017. The "C" suffix denotes the variant supplied with the cancellation harness for cars originally fitted with Dynamic Damper Control – confirm your car has factory EDC before ordering this part number rather than the standard F10 4WD kit.

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Pick your spring rates and damper specification below to configure this Tarmac Rally kit for your F10 xDrive.