XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Ford TELSTAR 1993-1997

The GE-platform Ford Telstar sits in an awkward spot in the UK enthusiast scene – a Mazda 626 underneath, badged for markets that mostly aren’t this one, and largely ignored by the aftermarket since the late nineties. The XYZ Racing Street Advanced coilover gives those last surviving GE Telstars something the factory dampers gave up on a decade ago: a serviceable, height-adjustable suspension with real damping control.

Owners keeping a 1993-1997 Telstar on UK roads are usually working around tired McPherson struts, sagged rear coils and a ride height that has drifted south of the arches. This is the kit that resets the car – geometry back where it should be, damping you can actually tune to the surface, and a setup that copes with a fast B-road on Saturday and a school run on Monday.

What this coilover does for your 1993-1997 Ford Telstar

The 720-way damping adjustment is the headline spec, and on a chassis as compliant as the GE Telstar it matters more than it would on something already stiff from the factory. Wind the damping back and you get a softer ride than the worn original dampers were ever giving you; wind it up and the body roll the Telstar is known for finally tightens up through quicker direction changes. Height adjustment lets you drop the car onto its arches without resorting to lowering springs on tired struts, and you set corner balance properly rather than living with whatever the factory tolerances delivered three decades ago. The result is a Telstar that turns in cleanly, settles mid-corner instead of leaning on its outside tyre, and rides better than it has since it left the showroom.

About the Street Advanced coilover

Street Advanced is XYZ Racing’s most popular series and it is the one developed specifically with normal road use and occasional track days in mind, rather than circuit work first. Construction follows the standard XYZ pattern – full-length adjustable bodies, twin-locking collars to separate ride height from spring preload, and pillowball top mounts where the application calls for them. The 720-way damping adjuster sits at a single knob per damper and controls bump and rebound together, which is the right call for a road-biased coilover where the owner is dialling feel rather than chasing tenths. The platform has been refined through years of development by the XYZ engineering team and validated in international race programmes before the road-going version was finalised, so the damper internals carry over from kit that has seen real abuse. For a Telstar owner, that pedigree translates into a coilover that will not fade after a hot summer of repeated adjustment.

Fitment for the Ford TELSTAR (1993-1997)

This kit is built for the Ford Telstar chassis code FO18, covering model years 1993 through 1997. Confirm your car falls inside that year range before ordering, and check your existing top mount and lower mount configuration against the supplied hardware – the GE-platform Telstar shares its underpinnings with the contemporary Mazda 626, so reference points across both can help if your records are thin.

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Pick your spring rates and top-mount options below and build the spec that suits your Telstar.