XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Audi A3 SPORTBACK 8V Φ55 (Rear Twist- beam Suspension) (Cancellation Kit for ElectronicDamping) 2012-2020

Audi built certain A3 Sportback 8V cars with adaptive electronic damping fitted at the factory, and on the Φ55 twist-beam rear axle that system talks to the ECU in a way a straight coilover swap does not account for – drop electronic dampers for manual ones without addressing it and you are staring at a dashboard full of suspension warnings. The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover kit for this A3 Sportback comes with the cancellation kit built in, so the factory electronics stop interfering and the car runs on the new dampers as intended.

Super Sport sits below XYZ’s outright track-focused ranges, built for fast-road driving with weekend track sessions on the calendar rather than a car that lives on slicks. On a torsion-beam rear axle like the 8V’s Φ55 setup, that balance matters: the rear end moves as a unit, so getting the damping and ride height right at the front strut and rear unit together is what actually changes how the car behaves, not chasing individual corner adjustment the twist-beam layout was never designed to offer.

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

Fit this kit and the first thing you will feel is control over ride height – lower the A3 Sportback for a flatter stance and a lower centre of gravity without touching spring rate, or keep it closer to standard for a daily-driven car that still needs to clear speed bumps. The 36-way damping adjustment lets you soften the front end for motorway miles and firm it back up before a track day, which matters on a twist-beam rear where the axle’s inherent compliance means the front dampers do more of the work shaping turn-in. Because the cancellation kit removes the factory electronic damping control from the equation, the ride quality you set is the ride quality you get – no ECU override softening or stiffening the car mid-corner behind your back. Bump absorption on rough UK B-roads improves noticeably over a car left on tired factory dampers, and the adjustable range means you are not locked into one compromise setting for the car’s whole life.

About the Super Sport coilover

XYZ Racing designed the Super Sport line to take the harshness out of poor road surfaces without giving up the adjustability a keener driver wants. Each damper offers 36 stages of damping adjustment, wide enough to move from a comfortable daily setting to a noticeably firmer track-day feel without swapping parts. Ride height is independently adjustable at each corner, so the car can be set low for looks and stance or raised slightly for a daily commute, then changed again later without buying a new kit. The construction is built to cope with both a weekend on circuit and the daily grind to work and back, which is the brief for a road car that occasionally sees a track. For this A3 Sportback fitment, the kit ships with the electronic damping cancellation module needed to run manual dampers on a chassis originally specified with adaptive suspension.

Fitment for the Audi A3 Sportback (2012-2020)

This kit is built for the Audi A3 Sportback 8V with the Φ55 rear twist-beam suspension layout, covering the 2012 to 2020 model years. It includes the cancellation kit required for cars originally fitted with electronic damping control, so the factory system is neutralised rather than left to conflict with the new dampers. Confirm your A3 Sportback has the twist-beam rear axle and factory electronic damping before ordering, as multi-link quattro variants use a different kit.

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Get the stance and damping control this A3 Sportback was missing from the factory – configure yours below.