XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Ford MONDEO 1996-2000

The first-generation Ford Mondeo arrived as a genuine driver’s saloon hiding inside a rep-spec body – the chassis Richard Parry-Jones signed off, the one that taught a generation of engineers what a front-driver could feel like through a fast British B-road. Three decades on, that same MK1 platform sags on tired struts, rolls onto its outside shoulder mid-corner, and rides the bump-stops over anything sharper than a cat’s-eye. The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover for the Ford Mondeo (1996-2000) is built to give the FO13 chassis back the body control it earned in period, with the height drop fast-road owners actually want.

This is the kit for the MK1 Mondeo owner running a clean ST24 or ST200, or a tidy Ghia V6 that gets driven properly at weekends and occasionally taken to a sprint or trackday. Thirty-six clicks of damping at each corner, full ride-height adjustment, and a damper specifically tuned for the rough-road reality of UK tarmac.

What this coilover kit does for your 1996-2000 Ford Mondeo

A 30-year-old Mondeo on factory dampers is a soft, vague thing – the Duratec V6’s nose-weight pushes wide on turn-in, and the rear stays planted by accident rather than design. Drop the FO13 onto the Super Sport and the body stops heaving. The 36-way damping range lets you wind out the float on a long sweeping A-road and then firm things up before a trackday without touching a spanner. Ride height comes down enough to close the arch gap without killing the geometry, and the spring-and-damper match means the front end takes a kerb without ricocheting the steering column. Braking confidence comes back too – less dive under the pedal means the front tyres stay loaded where you want them, and a CD132 Mondeo finally turns in the way the chassis always promised.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s fast-road-with-track-weekend specification. It runs 36 clicks of combined bump and rebound adjustment from a single knob at the top of each unit, so you can move from a comfort setting on the commute to a firmer setup at the circuit without removing wheels. Ride height is fully adjustable on the lower mount, which preserves shock travel rather than just dropping the car by collapsing the spring. The damper has been built specifically to absorb rough-road inputs – the kind of mid-corner bump that unsettles a stiffer pure-track coilover – while still controlling body roll under load. It is engineered as a dual-purpose damper: weekend race use and daily driving share the same hardware, with the click adjustment doing the work in between.

Fitment for the Ford Mondeo (1996-2000)

This kit is built for the MK1 Ford Mondeo, chassis code FO13, model years 1996 through 2000 – covering saloon, hatchback and estate body styles across the facelift run. Front and rear units are supplied as a four-corner kit matched to the platform’s stock mounting points.

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