XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — BMW 7 SERIES F01/F02 2008-2015

The F01/F02 7 Series is a long-wheelbase luxury saloon riding on air at the rear from the factory, and that single fact dictates everything about how this car wants to be modified. Replace the OEM air-and-EDC setup with a passive coilover and you inherit the F01 chassis at its rawest – a 1,945kg flagship that suddenly has to deal with road inputs without the self-levelling crutch. The XYZ Racing Street Advanced coilover for the BMW 7 Series F01/F02 is built specifically for owners who want to keep the car driveable every day while taking back manual control of ride height and damping.

This is the road-biased option in the XYZ range, sitting below the track-focused Super Sport and Top Sport kits. It is the right pick for an F01 730d, 740i, 750i or the V12-engined 760i owner who wants the car to sit lower and feel tied-down on a B-road, without surrendering the long-distance composure the chassis was designed around.

What this coilover does for your 2008-2015 BMW 7 Series F01/F02

Drop the F01’s centre of gravity, sharpen the turn-in, and the car finally responds in a way the chassis has always been capable of but the soft factory tune masked. The 720-way damping range is the headline number here – it gives you genuinely usable adjustment from a soft motorway setting that protects the kidneys on broken B-road tarmac, through to a firmer click count that controls body roll when you load the nose into a corner. Ride height is independently adjustable from spring perch, so corner-balancing is possible without preloading the spring or sacrificing damper travel – important on a car this heavy, where running out of stroke ends an evening fast. Expect tighter steering response, less vague initial bite, and a meaningful reduction in the wallow that creeps in mid-corner on the OEM air system as it ages and the bladders soften.

About the Street Advanced coilover

The Street Advanced is the most popular kit in the XYZ Racing catalogue and the one the company’s own engineering team have iterated on the longest. It is developed for road use first and track-day duty second, with 720 damping settings on a single combined bump-and-rebound adjuster – turn the knob, both circuits move together in a calibrated ratio. The spec sheet reads as a road coilover that has been validated against XYZ’s worldwide race programme rather than a race coilover detuned for the street, and the distinction matters: spring rates and damper valving are chosen so the car still works over cat’s-eyes and expansion joints, not just over kerbing. Construction is the same monotube architecture XYZ run across the range, with pillowball top mounts where the platform allows. It is the kit XYZ describe as indispensable for drivers chasing both speed and control – and on a 7 Series, control is the half of that equation most owners want back.

Fitment for the BMW 7 Series F01/F02 (2008-2015)

This kit is built for the F01 standard-wheelbase and F02 long-wheelbase 7 Series, chassis code BM123 in the XYZ application data, covering the 2008 through 2015 production run. Confirm your specific drivetrain (rear-wheel drive vs xDrive) and trim at checkout, as front strut and rear damper variants are split across the configurator below.

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Pick your ride height and damping spec for the F01/F02 in the configurator below.