XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Honda CRV IV 2012-2016

Sealed-surface tarmac stages punish a tall, family-shaped crossover in ways the factory dampers were never asked to cope with. The CR-V IV carries its mass high, leans on soft long-travel springs tuned for school runs and motorway compliance, and washes wide the moment you load the nose into a fast corner. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is the answer to that problem – a damper built around the specific brief of keeping a road-derived chassis composed when the road surface stays bumpy but the pace climbs.

This is the rally-specification kit in the XYZ Racing range, drawn directly from the company’s sealed-stage tarmac rally programme. It sits below the all-out Gravel Rally setup in the catalogue and is the right pick for an owner running a CR-V IV on rough B-roads, hillclimbs, sprint events, or genuine tarmac stage rallies where surface quality is unpredictable.

What this coilover does for your 2012-2016 Honda CRV IV

Drop a Tarmac Rally damper under the IV-generation CR-V and the change in body control is immediate. The high centre of gravity that defines this chassis – and which the standard dampers chase rather than control – is pulled down and tied to the road. Vertical movement over mid-corner bumps is absorbed without throwing the car off line, so the front tyres stay loaded and the understeer that owners complain about on lift-off retreats. Hard braking into a compression no longer pitches the nose into the bump-stops. Across cambers, kerbs, and broken tarmac the body settles a beat sooner, which means you can carry more speed into the next input with the steering already doing what you asked of it.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally damper is engineered for one thing – soaking up the impact of uneven pavement at speed while keeping the tyre in contact with the surface. Where a circuit coilover wants flat, predictable asphalt, this one is built to ride through the jolt of a heavy compression, suppress the secondary shock through the body, and put traction back at the contact patch before the next bump arrives. Stability under those conditions is the whole point – a chassis that does not skip, twitch, or unload when the road stops being smooth. Every setting in this kit comes out of the XYZ Racing tarmac rally programme, not extrapolated from a road-comfort spec sheet. That distinction matters on the CR-V IV, because the platform’s mass and ride height want a damper that has actually been valved for stage-pace work on bumpy sealed surfaces.

Fitment for the Honda CRV IV (2012-2016)

This kit is built for the fourth-generation Honda CR-V (chassis code IV), covering model years 2012 to 2016. Confirm your year against the build plate before ordering, as the platform changed for the post-2017 fifth-generation car.

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Pick your spring rates and ride-height spec below and build the Tarmac Rally kit to suit your CR-V IV.