XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Audi A3 8V Φ50 (Rear Multi-Link Suspension) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2012-2020

The Audi A3 8V’s multi-link rear axle – typically reserved for quattro and higher-output variants of this generation rather than the torsion-beam layout used on the base FWD cars – gives a coilover kit something worthwhile to work with at the back, instead of fighting a beam axle’s inherent limits. On cars that left the factory with Audi Drive Select’s electronic adaptive dampers, this Street Advanced kit is built as the cancellation-kit variant, shipping with the module needed to run manual coilovers without the ECU throwing a damper-fault warning.

XYZ Racing’s Street Advanced sits between the brand’s fast-road and full competition lines, aimed at owners who split time between daily driving and the occasional track day rather than a car that only sees tarmac twice a year. The 50mm strut body and multi-link-specific rear valving are matched to this chassis’s actual geometry, not carried over from a generic front-wheel-drive platform kit.

What this coilover does for your 2012-2020 Audi A3 8V

Fit this kit to a multi-link A3 8V and the rear axle stops feeling like an afterthought – independent geometry back there means damping changes show up in body control through direction changes, instead of being masked by a torsion beam’s built-in compliance. The 720-way damping adjustment gives enough granularity to soften the ride for daily driving and firm it up meaningfully for a track day without needing a second set of dampers. Ride height adjusts independently front and rear, so you can correct the nose-down stance the A3 8V tends to pick up as its factory dampers age, or drop the car enough to close the arch gap without resorting to spacers. Because this is the cancellation-kit variant, the swap removes Drive Select’s electronic damper control entirely rather than leaving a fault light nagging you every time the car starts.

About the Street Advanced coilover

Street Advanced is XYZ Racing’s highest-volume kit, refined across several product cycles rather than launched and left alone, with development shaped by feedback from the race programmes the company supplies around the world. It sits above the entry-level Street line on adjustment range: 720 discrete damping positions let you separate compression and rebound behaviour far more finely than a basic single-adjuster kit allows, which matters when you’re trying to soften a landing over a compression without unsettling the car afterward. It’s pitched at normal road use with genuine track-day capability rather than a kit built solely for circuit work, which is why the adjustment range biases toward everyday usability rather than raw stiffness alone. For drivers chasing sharper turn-in and a chassis that holds its composure under harder driving while still working as a daily car, Street Advanced is built to cover both jobs from one set of dampers rather than asking you to choose.

Fitment for the Audi A3 8V (2012-2020)

This kit is specced for the Audi A3 8V built between 2012 and 2020, matched to the multi-link independent rear suspension fitted to quattro and higher-output variants of this generation rather than the torsion-beam layout used elsewhere in the range. It is built specifically as the electronic-damping cancellation version, for cars that left the factory with Drive Select-controlled adaptive dampers. Confirm your car has the multi-link rear and factory electronic damping before ordering, since a base torsion-beam A3 8V needs a different kit.

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Every Street Advanced kit for the A3 8V is matched to this chassis’s multi-link geometry and its electronic damping cancellation requirement – pick your spec below to build yours.