XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — BMW 5 SERIES F11 (OE FOR REAR AIR STRUT) 2010-2017

The F11 Touring is a difficult car to set up properly. The long wheelbase, the kerb weight north of 1,800kg, and the factory rear air strut on this variant mean most off-the-shelf suspension kits either sit the back end on its bumpstops or refuse to address the chassis as an actual driving tool. The Tarmac Rally coilover takes the opposite approach: it treats the F11 as a fast estate that needs to deal with poor surfaces at speed, not just lowered ride height for the look.

For sealed-stage tarmac rally work – or for UK B-roads that may as well be sealed-stage tarmac rally – this is a damper built to absorb the hit and put the tyre back on the ground before the next compression arrives.

What this coilover does for your 2010-2017 Bmw 5 Series F11 (OE for Rear Air Strut)

This kit is engineered specifically for the F11 chassis variant that left the factory with rear air struts, so the conversion to a conventional coilover-sprung rear is properly resolved rather than improvised. On the road you get a body that stops floating over mid-corner ridges and a back axle that no longer pogos on motorway expansion joints. Push harder and the gains stack: the front end takes turn-in inputs without the nose dive that the standard car carries, and the rear stays planted through the kind of broken-surface corners where the long-wheelbase Touring usually runs out of compliance. Braking confidence improves with the reduced pitch, which matters more on a 1.8-tonne estate than on something half its weight. The Tarmac Rally tune is biased toward traction and stability rather than razor-sharp turn-in, which is the correct trade-off for the F11’s mass and brief.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is XYZ Racing’s damper built specifically for sealed-stage rally conditions, where the surface is paved but rarely smooth. Construction and valving are oriented around impact absorption – soaking up the jolt of big bumps and broken kerbs without unsettling the chassis or losing tyre contact. The damping philosophy suppresses body shock through compression events and recovers the contact patch quickly, which is what generates the traction figures rally crews live and die by. The settings carried over to this kit are drawn from XYZ Racing’s own competition programme on tarmac stages, so the baseline is a proven rally tune rather than a road coilover with the spring rates turned up. The result is a coilover that gives the F11 stability under hard load and the kind of compliance over surface failures that lets you stay committed when the road gets rough.

Fitment for the Bmw 5 Series F11 (2010-2017)

Chassis code BM80, model years 2010 through 2017. Specifically built for the F11 Touring variant fitted with the OE rear air strut – this kit replaces both axles with conventional spring-and-damper assemblies, which is the correct path rather than retaining the failure-prone air system.

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