XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — BMW X1 F48 2016-2022

The F48 X1 is a tall, front-biased crossover riding on a UKL2 platform shared with the Mini and the 2 Series Active Tourer – which means the factory damping was tuned to soak up potholes and shopping runs, not to keep a 1.5-tonne body composed when you actually lean on it. The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover for the BMW X1 F48 (2016-2022) is the kit that drops the centre of gravity, takes the float out of the front axle, and gives this chassis the body control it never had from the showroom.

For fast-road work in an xDrive20i or a 25e plug-in hybrid – where the extra battery weight sits low but the body still rolls – the Super Sport is the right pick. It is the kit aimed at owners who want a genuinely sharper X1 on a B-road, with the ride-height range to set a stance, and the damping headroom to handle the occasional weekend track day without going to a full circuit-spec setup.

What this coilover does for your 2016-2022 Bmw X1

The 36-way damping adjustment is the headline you actually feel from the driver’s seat. Wind it soft for a long motorway run and the F48 stops crashing over expansion joints the way the factory M Sport setup does on its short-travel passive dampers. Wind it firmer for a Sunday morning and the nose stops diving under braking into a roundabout, the outside rear stops squatting on corner exit, and the steering loads up properly off-centre instead of going light at the top of the rim. Ride-height adjustment lets you bring the arch gap in without the typical lowering-spring penalty – because the spring rate, damper valving, and shortened body are designed to work together rather than fighting each other. The result is a small SUV that finally feels like it shares a parts bin with a 1 Series M Sport, rather than a Countryman.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s dual-purpose damper – the kit engineered specifically to eliminate the bump-harshness and rough-road clatter that plagues entry-level coilovers, while still giving you the adjustment range to dial in a setup. Ride height is adjustable across the kit, and damping runs 36 clicks from soft to firm on a single combined adjuster per corner, so you are not juggling separate bump and rebound circuits. The damper is built to cope with the full spread of UK road conditions, from cratered town centres to dry, smooth B-roads, and it has the construction to take a weekend track session without fade. It is, by XYZ’s own positioning, a high-performance unit that does not force you to choose between a daily commute and a circuit day – the same kit handles both, with the adjustment in your hands rather than locked in at the factory.

Fitment for the Bmw X1 (2016-2022)

This kit is matched to the F48 chassis, covering the full 2016-2022 production run of the second-generation X1 – sDrive and xDrive, petrol, diesel, and 25e plug-in hybrid variants on the standard suspension. Confirm your chassis code reads F48 on the VIN plate before ordering. M Sport suspension cars are covered by the same kit; ride-height starting points may differ from passive-comfort cars.

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Pick your spring rate, top-mount, and ride-height spec in the configurator below and build the F48 setup that matches how you actually drive the car.