XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Renault CLIO MK4 RS 2012-2018

The Clio RS’s front-driven chassis has to find traction over stage surfaces that road-going Renaultsport suspension was never tuned for – broken tarmac, mid-corner crests, and the kind of compression events that flatten a standard damper long before the finish line. XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally coilover is built around that exact problem: a damper tuned to absorb the impact of uneven pavement without losing contact patch.

This is a rally-specific spec for the Renault CLIO MK4 RS built for sealed-stage tarmac rally, not a fast-road compromise dressed up in rally branding. Every valving decision in this kit comes from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally programme, carried straight across into a coilover you fit to your car.

What this coilover does for your 2012-2018 Renault CLIO MK4 RS

Fit this Tarmac Rally coilover to a 2012-2018 Clio RS and the biggest change you will feel is how the car absorbs a hit rather than transmitting it. Uneven tarmac and the odd broken edge that would normally jolt the body and unsettle the nose are soaked up before that shock reaches the chassis, so the front end stays loaded and the Clio’s nose-heavy weight transfer under braking stays predictable into a stage corner. Suppressing that body shock keeps the tyre’s contact patch working instead of skipping, which is where the traction gain actually comes from – not from stiffer springs alone, but from a damper that controls what the spring does after the hit. The result on a Clio RS, whose factory Renaultsport tune was never built for stage-speed compression events, is a car that holds its line over crests and mid-corner bumps where a standard setup would step sideways.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally line is built specifically to absorb the impact of uneven pavement – the broken surfaces, patched sections and crests that sealed-stage tarmac rally throws up mile after mile. The damper is tuned to soak up hard, sudden jolts across big bumps without passing that shock straight into the body, which is what lets the tyre keep working the road instead of skipping across it. That control over body shock also underpins the stability the type is known for – a chassis that stays composed through direction changes rather than one that’s simply stiff. Every setting XYZ Racing ships in this line is carried across directly from its own tarmac rally racing experience, rather than derived from road-going or circuit-day damping curves, which is why a Tarmac Rally coilover reads differently on the road to XYZ’s circuit-focused ranges.

Fitment for the Renault CLIO MK4 RS (2012-2018)

This kit is specified for the Renault CLIO MK4 RS, chassis code RS, covering the 2012 to 2018 model years. Confirm your Clio sits within that build window before ordering, as Renaultsport running gear changed enough across the Mk4’s life that spec accuracy matters.

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Every Tarmac Rally kit for the Clio MK4 RS ships to a specific damping and spring configuration – configure yours below to match your car and stage programme.