XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz SLS 2009-2014

The SLS AMG sits in a strange place in the Mercedes back-catalogue: a 6.2-litre naturally-aspirated V8 hung ahead of the front axle, a transaxle at the rear, gullwing doors, and a kerb weight that the standard adaptive dampers were never quite tuned to flatter on a British B-road. The factory ABC-derived setup is plush at motorway pace and then gets caught out the moment the road surface turns lumpy or the driver leans on the front axle mid-corner.

The XYZ Racing Street Advanced coilover is the road-biased answer for ME30-chassis SLS owners who want to take ownership of how the car rides and how it turns in, without surrendering the GT character that made them buy a front-engined supercar in the first place.

What this coilover does for your 2009-2014 Mercedes Benz SLS

Drop the ride height into a stance that actually flatters the wide-arch bodywork, then use the adjustable damping to settle the front axle so the nose stops floating over crests at speed. With the spring rates lifted over standard, the SLS will hold its line through a long fast sweeper instead of leaning onto the outside front tyre and washing wide. Turn-in becomes sharper, body roll halves, and the rear transaxle layout finally gets to show what it can do for weight transfer on corner exit. Crucially, the damping range is wide enough that you can soften the car off for a long European drive and firm it back up for a track day at Bedford without lifting a spanner to the springs.

About the Street Advanced coilover

Street Advanced is XYZ Racing’s road-focused damper-and-spring platform, built around a monotube body with an inverted front strut layout where the chassis demands it. Damping is adjustable across a usable range from the top of each unit, so changes can be made with the wheel off and a 3mm Allen key rather than a workshop visit. Ride height is set independently of spring preload via a threaded lower mount, meaning corner-weighting on an SLS does not cost you spring travel. Pillowball top mounts are specified where the OE design allows, sharpening steering response without introducing the harshness associated with cheaper rose-jointed conversions. The whole platform is built and dyno-matched in Taiwan to spring rates chosen specifically for the SLS’s front-heavy, transaxle-balanced layout – not lifted from a generic AMG application.

Fitment for the Mercedes Benz SLS (2009-2014)

Direct fitment for the ME30-chassis SLS AMG coupé and roadster across the full 2009 to 2014 production run, including the GT variants. Replaces the factory adaptive damper assemblies front and rear. Order code XYZ-COIL-ME30-SA.

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Configure spring rates, top mounts and ride height for your SLS in the configurator below.