XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — BMW X5 F15 4WD (NON AIR STRUT) 2013-2018

The F15 X5 was never meant to be a stage car. Two-and-a-bit tonnes of luxury SUV, an xDrive system that prioritises traction over agility, and a chassis tuned to soak up potholes rather than fire across them. Strip away the air-strut variants and you’re left with the coil-sprung F15 – the platform that actually responds to suspension engineering, because there’s a damper to replace instead of a bladder to fight.

These XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilovers are built for owners running a coil-sprung F15 hard on sealed stages, hillclimbs, or fast B-road shakedowns. The brief is specific: control the F15’s mass through compressions, keep the contact patch loaded when the surface breaks up, and stop the body from pitching the second the road camber changes.

What this coilover does for your 2013-2018 Bmw X5 F15 4WD (NON AIR STRUT)

The F15’s biggest dynamic problem on a broken surface is unloaded wheels. Hit a mid-corner ridge in the standard car and the inside rear goes light, xDrive scrambles, and the nose washes wide. Tarmac Rally damping is built to absorb that hit without bouncing the chassis off the road, so the four tyres stay planted and the all-wheel-drive system can actually do its job. Expect a firmer primary ride – this is a stage damper, not a comfort spring – but a calmer secondary ride over high-frequency surface noise. Turn-in sharpens because the front axle stops nodding under brake application, and the rear stays settled when you load it up on corner exit. Ride height comes down to something the F15 should always have looked like.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally damper is the product of XYZ’s own tarmac rally programme, and the engineering target is impact absorption across uneven and broken pavement rather than billiard-table smoothness. Where a circuit coilover assumes a known surface and rewards stiffness, this one is valved to soak up the heavy jolt of a kerb strike, a sunken drain, or a mid-stage compression without unsettling the body. Suppressing that vertical shock is what keeps tyre traction up when the surface is working against you. The settings carried into this kit are pulled directly from XYZ’s competition tarmac rally experience – the damper curves, the rebound bias, the willingness to take a hit and recover quickly – rather than being a softened version of a track product. For a chassis as heavy as the F15, that distinction matters. Loaded SUVs punish dampers that can’t manage compression speed, and the Tarmac Rally spec is built around exactly that load.

Fitment for the Bmw X5 F15 (2013-2018)

This kit fits the F15-generation X5 from 2013 to 2018 in 4WD configuration, chassis code BM69-1-2. It is specifically for cars on conventional coil struts – the NON-AIR-STRUT specification. If your F15 has air suspension at either axle, this kit is not the right part. Check your factory build sheet or the strut top before ordering.

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Pick your spring rates and ride height below and build the kit to your stage spec.