XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Hyundai IX35 2009-2015

The Hyundai IX35 was never meant to attack a sealed stage, but the platform’s tall ride height and soft factory damping become a real liability the moment you commit to a fast tarmac entry. These XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilovers are the answer for owners who have repurposed the LM-platform IX35 as a budget rally weapon or a recce car – the kind of build where the OE struts have already given up after one event.

This is not a fast-road kit dressed up in rally language. The Tarmac Rally spec is built around absorbing the strikes a 1.6-tonne crossover takes when it lands hard out of a compression, and keeping all four contact patches loaded through the next sequence of corners. For a high-CoG car like the IX35, that load management is the difference between a clean stage time and a moment.

What this coilover does for your 2009-2015 Hyundai IX35

Drop the IX35 onto these and the first thing that disappears is the wallowing recovery after a mid-corner bump – the chassis settles in one movement instead of three. Bump absorption is the headline: hit a broken patch of tarmac mid-corner and the damper soaks the impact rather than unloading the tyre, which is exactly what keeps front-end bite alive on a fast sealed stage. Traction at the driven axle improves noticeably because the tyre is staying on the road instead of skipping across it. For owners running the IX35 as a recce or club-rally tarmac car, you also gain the geometry control to take some of the platform’s natural roll out of the equation without making the car undriveable on transit sections.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is XYZ’s sealed-stage specialist, developed out of the company’s own tarmac rally programme rather than adapted from a circuit kit. The damper is tuned specifically to absorb the impact loads that come from uneven pavement – the kerb strikes, the patched surface, the compressions and crests that a circuit damper would unload through. The valving is designed to suppress body movement under big single hits while still keeping the tyre planted for the corner that follows, which is the central problem of tarmac rally suspension. Every setting carried over into this kit comes from XYZ’s own tarmac competition data, so the baseline is closer to a stage-ready spec out of the box than the long fine-tune you would expect from a generic adjustable kit.

Fitment for the Hyundai IX35 (2009-2015)

This kit is fitted to the LM-platform Hyundai IX35 across the full 2009-2015 production run, chassis reference HY15. Confirm your year and trim against the configurator before ordering, as front-strut and rear damper specifications differ between the 2WD and 4WD drivetrains on this platform.

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Pick your IX35 spec in the configurator below to build the kit for your event calendar.