XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Audi A3 8V Φ55 (Rear Multi-Link Suspension) Modified Rear Integrated (Cancellation Kit forElectronic Damping) 2012-2020

The Audi A3 8V’s multi-link rear axle – fitted to quattro-equipped cars rather than the torsion-beam set-up on lower-spec front-drive versions – gives this Tarmac Rally coilover kit a proper rear end to work with, not just a spring to compensate for. Because this fitment includes the cancellation kit for the car’s factory electronic damping, it’s built specifically for A3s that left the factory with adaptive dampers, where that system needs to be properly bypassed before a fixed-valve coilover can do its job cleanly.

Tarmac Rally is XYZ’s sealed-stage set-up: fast, uneven-surface running where the car needs to absorb repeated hard impacts without losing its composure between corners. On an A3 8V that means keeping the multi-link rear planted under the compression loading a rally stage throws at it, not simply softening the ride for a smooth circuit.

What this coilover does for your 2012-2020 Audi A3

Fitted to a 2012-2020 A3, this kit changes how the car deals with the broken, cambered surfaces a tarmac stage throws underneath it. The damper tuning soaks up sharp-edged impacts – potholes, ridges, patched sections of road – before they turn into a kick through the chassis, which keeps the tyre’s contact patch loaded instead of skipping off the surface. Because the electronic damping cancellation kit takes the factory adaptive system out of the equation, the ride characteristic is set once by the damper itself rather than renegotiated by a control unit every few milliseconds, so behaviour stays consistent from one stage to the next. The multi-link rear gets the geometry control it needs to stay flat and predictable through fast direction changes, instead of wallowing on tired factory dampers.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

XYZ’s Tarmac Rally line is built around the specific demands of sealed-stage rallying on broken, uneven road surfaces, rather than the smooth consistency of a circuit. The damper valving is set up to soak up large, sharp-edged hits – cracked tarmac, ridges, patched repairs – without transmitting that shock straight into the body structure, which keeps the tyre’s contact patch doing its job instead of skipping across the surface. That control is what keeps the car settled and predictable through fast direction changes: the stability that lets a driver commit to a line rather than lift over rough sections. The damping settings themselves come directly from XYZ’s own Tarmac Rally programme, developed through actual stage running, and are carried into this kit alongside the electronic damping cancellation hardware the A3 8V’s multi-link rear cars need to run it.

Fitment for the Audi A3 (2012-2020)

This kit is built for the Audi A3 8V, chassis code AU12-6-C, across the 2012 to 2020 production run, specifically for cars fitted with the multi-link rear suspension and factory electronic damping – hence the included cancellation kit, needed to run a fixed-valve coilover on those cars without conflicting with the OE control unit.

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This spec bundles the electronic damping cancellation kit that adaptive-damper A3 8V cars need alongside the Tarmac Rally dampers – configure yours below.