XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Audi A5 B8 COUPE (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2007-2016

The B8 A5 Coupe left Ingolstadt with optional electronic damping wired into Audi Drive Select, and that is exactly the problem when you want to fit a proper coilover. Pull the adaptive struts out and the car throws a suspension fault on the dash. This Street Advanced kit is the version built for that car: it includes the cancellation module that keeps the electronic damping control happy once the factory variable dampers are gone, so you get manual ride-height and damping control without a permanent warning light.

This is the comfort-biased end of the XYZ Racing range, aimed at the owner who runs a B8 A5 on the road most of the week and takes it to the occasional track day. You drop the ride height, firm up the body control, and keep enough compliance left in the damper to live with British B-roads.

What this coilover does for your 2007-2016 Audi A5 B8 Coupe

The B8 A5 carries its longitudinal engine ahead of the front axle, so the quattro nose runs heavy and the car leans on understeer when you load it up. Lowering the centre of gravity and tightening rebound control is how you claw that balance back. The 720 damping settings let you run a softer rebound for road comfort and wind the fronts firmer for a track session, then return to your daily setting afterwards. Height adjustment lets you set the stance you want and corner-balance the car, while the cancellation kit means none of this triggers the electronic damping fault on the instrument cluster.

About the Street Advanced coilover

The Street Advanced is XYZ Racing’s longest-serving and most widely sold coilover, refined over several years by the company’s engineering team and validated in international competition before reaching production. It is set up specifically for normal road use with track-day capability rather than dedicated circuit work. The headline feature is 720 individual damping adjustment positions on a single combined knob, giving you a usable spread from supple street to taut track without swapping parts. For the B8 A5, the supplied electronic damping cancellation kit is the piece that makes the conversion clean.

Fitment for the Audi A5 (2007-2016)

This kit fits the B8 A5 Coupe, chassis code AU23-C, across the 2007 to 2016 production span. It is the variant supplied with the cancellation kit for cars originally specified with electronic damping control, so it suits A5 Coupes that ran the adaptive setup from the factory.

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