XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Audi A3 SPORTBACK 8V Φ50 (Rear Multi-Link Suspension) 2012-2020

The A3 Sportback 8V’s multi-link rear axle – fitted to the quattro-equipped cars in the range rather than the torsion-beam layout used on front-drive versions – gives suspension engineers a genuine four corners to work with, not just a compromise at the back. That extra hardware is exactly where a Street Advanced coilover kit earns its keep on this chassis.

This kit is built for the A3 Sportback owner who drives the car daily and still wants it capable on a track day without swapping suspension in between. Ride height, compression and rebound all come under your control, with none of the single-purpose stiffness that would turn the school run or a motorway commute into a chore.

What this coilover kit does for your 2012-2020 Audi A3 Sportback quattro

Fit this coilover kit to a 2012-2020 Audi A3 Sportback and the first thing you notice is how much of the vague, cushioned travel in the standard multi-link rear disappears. The 720-way damping adjustment lets you set the rear firmer to control body roll through direction changes without turning the ride brittle over B-road scars and speed humps. Dropping the centre of gravity front and rear cuts the nose-dive under braking that the quattro drivetrain’s extra weight otherwise encourages, and sharper turn-in comes from tighter control of wheel movement at both ends. Because the damping is independently adjustable, you can run a comfort-biased setting for the commute and firm it up before a track day using nothing more than the adjuster itself.

About the Street Advanced coilover

Street Advanced sits at the centre of XYZ Racing’s coilover range and is the kit the brand sells in the highest volume, refined over years of development by XYZ’s own engineering team and proven through use in motorsport competition worldwide before being brought to road-going spec. It is built specifically to cover both normal road use and track day duty from the same set of dampers, rather than forcing a choice between the two. The headline spec is 720 damping adjusting way – a wide enough range that you genuinely feel the difference between the softest and firmest settings, rather than clicking through steps that do nothing. Construction follows XYZ’s usual coilover format, with height-adjustable perches and dampers tuned to hold that adjustment range without the harshness that narrower-range units tend to introduce. For a driver who wants to feel every input more precisely and back it with real control over how the car sits and moves, this is the kit XYZ positions as the one to reach for.

Fitment for the Audi A3 Sportback (2012-2020)

This kit is specified for the Audi A3 Sportback 8V built between 2012 and 2020, chassis code AU12-1, matched to the quattro-equipped cars that use the multi-link rear suspension rather than the torsion-beam layout fitted to front-drive versions. Confirm your car has the multi-link rear axle before ordering, since the two rear suspension types on the 8V are not interchangeable.

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Configure your Street Advanced coilover kit for the 2012-2020 Audi A3 Sportback below and set the spec to match how you actually drive it.