XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Cadillac CTS II (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2008-2014

The second-generation CTS was Cadillac’s serious answer to the German sports saloon, and the Magnetic Ride Control cars rode on a clever – but expensive and increasingly fragile – electronically controlled damper system that gets harder to keep alive every year the platform ages. The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover for the 2008-2014 CTS II ships with the cancellation kit needed to walk away from that electronic damping entirely and replace it with a fully mechanical, height-adjustable, 36-way damped setup.

For a 3,900lb rear-drive saloon with a long bonnet and a chassis that loads its front outside corner hard mid-bend, this is the upgrade that converts a tired luxury platform into something you actually want to drive on a B-road on Sunday morning. Fast-road bias, weekend track work entirely within scope.

What this coilover does for your 2008-2014 Cadillac CTS II

Swap the failing magnetic dampers for the Super Sport kit and the CTS stops floating over mid-corner ripples and starts holding a line. The 36 clicks of compression and rebound let you tune the front end soft enough to keep the nose settled over poor UK tarmac, then firm enough to stop the rear axle squatting under throttle when you load up the LSD on exit. Ride height adjustment closes the gap between tyre and arch that always made the standard CTS look apologetic next to an E90.

Because the cancellation kit removes the MagneRide ECU’s expectation of a live damper signal, you also lose the dashboard warning lights that haunt every CTS owner once the original units start to leak – and you stop pouring money into a discontinued OE part. Body control improves immediately under braking, steering feel sharpens, and the car finally sits flat through a quick direction change.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s fast-road-and-occasional-track damper, built specifically for owners who still drive the car daily. It uses a monotube body with 36-way combined damping adjustment, full independent ride height adjustment via the lower bracket (so you keep shock stroke when you drop the car), and pillow-ball top mounts where the platform allows. Spring rates are matched to the chassis weight and bias of the CTS II rather than pulled off a generic shelf.

The brief XYZ set for this series is straightforward: kill the harshness that puts most owners off going stiffer, while giving back enough body control to drive the car the way the engineering deserves. The 36 detents are useful detents, not marketing detents – the difference between click 8 and click 24 is something you feel in the steering wheel. Pair it with the supplied cancellation harness and the install is a one-time job, not an ongoing fault-code conversation.

Fitment for the Cadillac CTS II (2008-2014)

Direct fit for the second-generation CTS saloon, coupe and Sport Wagon, chassis CA02-C, 2008 through 2014 model years. The kit ships with the electronic damping cancellation harness required to defeat the MagneRide system without throwing a permanent suspension fault. Confirm your car was originally specified with Magnetic Ride Control before ordering this variant – non-MRC cars take the standard Super Sport kit instead.

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