XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Audi A3 HATCH 3D 8P 4WD φ50 (Modified Rear Integrated) 2003-2012

The Audi A3 8P’s quattro drivetrain sends drive to all four corners, which on a tarmac special stage means traction is rarely the limiting factor – it’s how well the chassis controls its own weight over crests, compressions and mid-corner camber changes. XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally coilover is built around that exact problem: a 50mm-body damper set up for sealed-surface stage work rather than gravel, with the rear mounted to this A3’s modified, integrated rear end instead of a stock top hat.

For a hatch built between 2003 and 2012, that means running the same setup XYZ carries across its own Tarmac Rally entries – a damper tuned to keep the tyre loaded through direction changes rather than soften every ripple, because a stage rewards a car that turns in predictably at speed, corner after corner.

What this coilover does for your 2003-2012 Audi A3 HATCH 3D 8P 4WD φ50 (Modified Rr Integrated)

Fit this coilover to the A3 8P and the first thing you’ll notice is how much less the nose dives under braking into a stage’s tighter corners – the damper controls pitch instead of leaving a soft factory strut to do it for you. Because the rear is integrated into this car’s modified mounting rather than a stock fitting, the back axle tracks the front through direction changes instead of arriving a beat late. On a quattro-driven A3, that matters most on corner exit, where the front-biased torque split needs a settled rear to put power down cleanly instead of squirming over broken tarmac.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

XYZ Racing built the Tarmac Rally damper specifically for sealed-surface stage work, where the road is smoother than gravel but still carries the crests, dips and camber changes that unsettle a soft factory strut. The valving is set to soak up sharp intrusions – a pothole edge, a broken tarmac seam – without letting the body kick sideways, which keeps the tyre’s contact patch loaded and the car pointed where you steered it. That’s the difference XYZ builds toward: a car that stays composed through a hit rather than one that merely survives it. The shock body is damped hard enough to suppress excess movement without skipping the tyre over broken surfaces, and every setting on this kit is carried directly from XYZ’s own Tarmac Rally programme into a 50mm strut for this application.

Fitment for the Audi A3 HATCH 3D 8P 4WD φ50 (Modified Rr Integrated) (2003-2012)

This kit is built for the Audi A3 8P (chassis code AU08-A), three-door hatch, quattro four-wheel-drive, covering the 2003 to 2012 production run. It’s specified around the modified, integrated rear mounting rather than the stock top mount, so confirm your car’s rear end has already been converted to this setup before ordering.

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This Tarmac Rally kit is built to the exact 8P quattro spec for this A3 – configure yours below.