XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz CLA C117 2013-2019

The C117 CLA wears its MFA front-drive platform honestly: a tall ride height to clear EU pedestrian regs, a torsion-beam rear on most variants, and a kerb stance that flatters nobody once you have spent any time looking at an AMG-line bodykit. The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover is the fast-road answer to that. It drops the nose into the arches the way the bodywork always implied it should, and replaces the soft, long-travel OE damping with a 30-way adjustable monotube that actually controls the C117’s relatively heavy front end.

This is the fast-road specification, not the circuit kit. The intent is a CLA that rides tightly enough to feel deliberate on a B-road, sits low enough to look right at a Sunday meet, and still tolerates a long motorway stint without beating the occupants up.

What this coilover does for your 2013-2019 Mercedes Benz CLA C117

Drop and stance are the obvious wins – height is adjustable independently of spring preload, so you can sit the C117 where it looks right without sacrificing usable shock travel. The 30 clicks of damping let you firm the front to keep the nose flat under turn-in, while leaving the rear soft enough that mid-corner bumps don’t unsettle the back axle on a UK B-road. On the motorway the kit settles into a flatter, more planted cruise than the OE air-over-spring setup ever managed. Sharper steering response, less float over crests, and a noticeably more honest front-end on lift-throttle – all without turning your CLA into a kidney-punisher.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s fast-road monotube, sitting between the entry coilover and the track-focused Circuit Master in the range. Build is a pillow-ball top mount up front, separate spring and ride-height adjustment so you can corner-weight without losing damper stroke, and 30 detented clicks of compression-and-rebound damping on a single adjuster. Spring rates are matched per chassis rather than sold as a generic kit, which matters on a nose-heavy transverse-engined car like the C117 where getting the front rate wrong turns a quick saloon into a wallowy one. Bodies are zinc-coated for British winters, and the spherical top mounts give the front-end the response the OE rubber tops smother.

Fitment for the Mercedes Benz CLA C117 (2013-2019)

This kit is specific to the C117 CLA across the 2013-2019 production run, covering the pre-facelift and the 2016 facelift cars. Confirm your variant before ordering – 4MATIC and the CLA 45 AMG run different rear suspension geometry to the front-drive cars and need a different part number.

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Build your spec – spring rate, damping preference, top-mount option – in the configurator below.