XYZ Racing Gravel Rally Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz S CLASS W222 (NON MBC hydraulic or 4WD) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2014-2020

The W222 S-Class was engineered around Magic Body Control and air suspension – a 2.1-tonne flagship that masked its mass with active hydraulics rather than mechanical discipline. Stripping that system out and replacing it with a properly valved coilover is a serious undertaking, and the Gravel Rally spec is the variant XYZ Racing built for the roughest end of that conversation: long-travel, soft-platform damping for unsealed surfaces and broken tarmac.

This kit is the cancellation-fit version, meaning it includes the electronics module needed to silence the W222’s ADS dashboard fault once the OE struts are out. For a 2014-2020 S-Class on gravel-stage duty, fast forest roads, or simply a chassis that needs to soak up genuinely terrible UK B-road surfaces without bottoming, the Gravel Rally damping curve is the relevant XYZ profile.

What this coilover does for your 2014-2020 Mercedes Benz S Class W222 (NON MBC Hydraulic Or 4WD) (cancellation Kit For Electronic Damping)

You get a chassis that finally responds to the throttle and steering rather than reacting through a layer of hydraulic interpretation. The Gravel Rally valving runs softer spring rates and longer stroke than XYZ’s tarmac-focused kits, which on a heavy car like the W222 translates to compliance over crested roads and washboard sections where stiffer setups would skip and lose contact. Pitch under braking is controlled by damping rather than air-spring rate, so heavy stops feel more linear. Ride height is height-adjustable independently of damping force, letting you set a usable rally stance without losing droop travel. The cancellation module clears the ADS warning so the dash isn’t a Christmas tree the moment you turn the key.

About the Gravel Rally coilover

Gravel Rally sits at the long-travel end of the XYZ Racing range, built for surfaces where wheel travel matters more than outright body control. The damper is a monotube design with separate compression and rebound adjustment, giving you scope to soften compression for impact absorption while keeping rebound tight enough to manage a heavy nose. Spring rates are deliberately lower than the Circuit Master or Super Sport variants, and the upper mounts are designed to take repeated impact loading rather than peak cornering G. Pillowball top mounts give direct feedback through the column; ride height adjusts at the lower bracket so corner-weighting isn’t compromised by preload. For the W222, the kit ships with the electronic damping cancellation harness – without it, the car’s ADS module will flag a fault and degrade related comfort systems.

Fitment for the Mercedes Benz S CLASS W222 (NON MBC hydraulic or 4WD) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) (2014-2020)

Chassis code ME63-C, covering W222 saloons built 2014 to 2020. This kit is for cars on standard adaptive (ADS) air or coil suspension – it is NOT compatible with Magic Body Control hydraulic cars or the 4MATIC 4WD variants. The included cancellation kit is mandatory on this fitment to suppress the electronic damping fault code once the OE struts are removed.

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