XYZ Racing Gravel Rally Coilovers — BMW 7 SERIES G11/G12 2015-2022

The G11/G12 7 Series is the last analogue-feeling flagship BMW built before everything went screen-first, and at well over two tonnes with air-sprung rear axles from the factory, it is not the obvious base for a rally car. But the long-wheelbase saloons that have ended up on private estates, forestry tracks and gravel test routes need a damper that ignores luxury entirely and treats the chassis as a heavy, high-CoG rally platform. That is what this kit is for.

The XYZ Racing Gravel Rally coilover for the 2015-2022 BMW 7 Series G11/G12 swaps the standard air strut and damper hardware for an inverted-tube, long-stroke setup developed for rallycross and gravel stage work. It is the firmest, most specialised damper in the XYZ catalogue for this chassis, and it exists because the people running these cars off-tarmac asked for one.

What this coilover does for your 2015-2022 Bmw 7 Series G11/G12

Replacing the G11/G12’s stock suspension with a long-stroke gravel coilover transforms how the car deals with broken surfaces. The inverted-tube body resists bending loads under hard cornering at speed – critical when a 2-tonne saloon is being thrown at a gravel apex – and the extended damper travel lets the wheels follow compressions and crests instead of unloading mid-corner. You get the suspension working through sandstone, snow and silt without bottoming, with spring rates set up to absorb chassis vibration on high-frequency bouncy sections. The car still rides on a damper that has been tested with rally teams, so the rebound control under repeated G-loads is calibrated, not guessed. Ride height drops out of the air-spring’s range entirely, giving you a fixed, predictable platform to set the car up against.

About the Gravel Rally coilover

This is the most specialised damper XYZ Racing builds, designed mainly for Rally Racing and Rally Cross use where road conditions are the most aggressive of any motorsport discipline. The inverted-tube construction is the headline engineering choice – flipping the damper body protects the working internals from gravel strike and stiffens the strut against side loads that a conventional twin-tube would flex under. Long stroke and long spring travel are the other defining features, sized to soak up high-speed impacts on bouncy gravel and to keep the tyre planted when the car is taking extreme G-force through a corner. Spring rates have been validated by rally race teams rather than dyno-derived in isolation. The design intent is single-purpose: gravel and mixed-surface competition on the BMW 7 Series G11/G12, not road comfort and not circuit work.

Fitment for the Bmw 7 Series (2015-2022)

This coilover is built for the BMW 7 Series G11/G12 chassis (BM124), covering the full 2015 to 2022 production run of both standard and long-wheelbase saloons. Because this damper replaces an air-sprung OE setup, confirm your car’s original suspension configuration before fitment – the kit is engineered around the G11/G12 strut geometry, not retro-applied to the earlier F01.

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Pick your spec below to configure the Gravel Rally kit for your G11 or G12.