XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Chery A3 2009-2015

The Chery A3 is a sealed-stage anomaly – a compact saloon-and-hatch built on a borrowed European platform, light enough to reward a properly damped chassis but soft enough from the factory to wallow the moment the road surface stops being smooth. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is the spec to fit when that A3 is being campaigned on closed-road tarmac stages, where surface changes from new chip-seal to broken concrete happen mid-corner and the suspension has to keep the contact patch loaded through both.

This is not a fast-road kit asked to do rally duty on weekends. The Tarmac Rally series is the spec XYZ Racing built specifically around closed-stage work on sealed surfaces, with settings derived from the company’s own Tarmac Rally racing programme rather than carried over from a circuit menu.

What this coilover does for your 2009-2015 Chery A3

Drop a Tarmac Rally coilover under the CE01 and the first thing the driver notices is how the car deals with the mid-corner hit – the cat’s-eye, the patched seam, the kerb that has lifted half an inch since last winter. The damper is built to absorb a sudden vertical input without unloading the outside tyre, which is the difference between holding a line and washing wide on the exit. Body movement is suppressed without going crashy; the chassis stays settled when the surface gets ragged. Traction under power out of slow corners improves noticeably because the rear axle is no longer skipping over compressions. On a car as light as the A3, that translates into front-end bite the standard suspension can’t deliver and a far more honest read of what the front tyres are doing.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is engineered around one job: keeping the tyre planted across the imperfect surfaces that define closed-road stages. The damping is tuned to swallow the impact of broken pavement and big single hits – the kind of compression that would send a circuit-spec coilover into bump-stop – while still controlling body movement under steady-state cornering load. The result is a chassis that stays composed when the surface goes from glass to gravel-strewn concrete inside one corner, with the shock body absorbing the jolt rather than transmitting it through the tub. Tyre traction holds because the contact patch stays in contact. Every damping curve and spring choice in this kit comes directly from XYZ Racing’s own Tarmac Rally programme, so the spec is calibrated for the surfaces it claims to deal with rather than guessed at from a road-car template.

Fitment for the Chery A3 (2009-2015)

This kit is built specifically for the Chery A3 chassis code CE01, covering model years 2009 to 2015 across saloon and hatch body styles. Confirm your year and chassis code against the configurator before ordering – the CE01 mounting points are the only fitment this SKU is cut for.

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The Chery A3 isn’t a car most coilover manufacturers bother to support at this spec level, so if you’re building a CE01 for tarmac stage work, configure your damper and spring options below.