XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — BMW 5 SERIES F11 4WD (OE FOR REAR AIR SYURT) 2010-2017

The F11 5 Series Touring with xDrive and factory rear air suspension is an awkward starting point for any coilover conversion. The OE air struts at the rear soften load changes beautifully on the motorway, but they bleed away every scrap of body control the moment you ask the car to change direction with real intent. Replace them with a properly valved damper and the F11 finally behaves like the chassis BMW’s engineers clearly knew was underneath all that compliance.

The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is the spec to reach for when the surface in question is broken, patched, and unpredictable – the sealed-stage rally use-case rather than glass-smooth circuit tarmac. On a four-wheel-drive F11 carrying the weight of an estate body and the xDrive transfer hardware, that damping philosophy translates directly to fast B-road work, lumpy UK A-roads, and the kind of mid-corner ridge that unsettles softer setups.

What this coilover does for your 2010-2017 Bmw 5 Series F11 4WD (OE FOR REAR AIR Syurt)

You get genuine wheel control on surfaces that previously had the car pattering and skipping. Hit a mid-corner compression at speed and the damper absorbs the input rather than transmitting it through the chassis as a shudder – the front end stays loaded, the xDrive system keeps finding traction, and the line you picked is the line you hold. Steering response sharpens noticeably because the front axle is no longer waiting for the air rear to catch up with weight transfer. Ride height is set to whatever the road dictates rather than what BMW’s air system decides, so you can run the F11 at a stance that suits how you actually drive it. Tyre contact on broken tarmac improves measurably, which on a 4WD car means quicker corner exits and less of the all-paw understeer that plagues factory-suspended xDrive 5ers when the surface gets rough.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally damper is built around impact absorption on uneven pavement rather than flat-floor circuit work. The valving is set to swallow big bumps and sharp ridges without losing platform control, which means the body stays settled when a smoother track-focused damper would be skipping the tyre clear of the surface. The result is suppressed body shock combined with sustained tyre traction – the two things you need most when the road surface is doing its best to upset the car. XYZ Racing developed the settings out of their own tarmac rally programme, where surface quality is never guaranteed and the only acceptable behaviour is one that keeps the contact patch loaded. For a heavy 4WD estate like the F11, that engineering bias matters more than headline damping-click counts.

Fitment for the Bmw 5 Series F11 4WD (OE FOR REAR AIR Syurt) (2010-2017)

This kit is specified for the F11 Touring with xDrive on chassis code BM117, covering the 2010 to 2017 production span, and is the OE-replacement spec for cars that left the factory with rear air suspension. Confirm your car carries the rear air setup before ordering – the F11 was sold in both steel-spring and air-rear configurations, and this listing is the air-rear replacement.

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The configurator below covers spring rate and other build options for this F11 application – pick your spec and build yours below.