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

The A3 Sportback 8V’s twist-beam rear axle keeps this front-wheel-drive hatch simple at the back end, but if your car left the factory with Audi’s electronic damping control, that simplicity comes wrapped around a module the aftermarket has to work around. This XYZ Racing Street Advanced kit includes the cancellation hardware needed to disable the OEM electronic damping signal, so the new dampers run as a proper passive setup rather than fighting a control unit that still thinks it’s talking to factory shocks.

Street Advanced is the line XYZ built for owners who split their mileage between the commute and the odd track day, and it’s the kit the brand sells in the highest volume for exactly that reason. On the A3 Sportback it swaps a twist-beam rear end tuned for comfort and cost into something with a defined, adjustable spring rate and 720 steps of damping control – enough range to soften off for a motorway run home and firm back up before a morning on circuit.

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

Lowering the A3 Sportback onto a coilover kit tightens up body control the stock twist-beam setup can’t offer, particularly under trail-braking into a corner where the factory rear axle wants to twist and unsettle the car. The 720-way damping adjustment lets you set a firmer compression circuit for track use without turning the ride brittle on the road – useful on a chassis with no multi-link rear to lean on for extra composure. Ride height adjusts independently front and rear, so you can correct rake, clear speed bumps without scraping, or drop the nose to sharpen turn-in on a car that’s naturally set up to understeer safely off the showroom floor. Because the cancellation kit removes the electronic damping control’s input, you get consistent, mechanical damping behaviour instead of a system constantly recalculating firmness based on sensors built for a different set of dampers.

About the Street Advanced coilover

XYZ’s engineering team has refined the Street Advanced platform over several product generations, running it through international racing programmes before the spec reaches road-going kits like this one. Each kit uses a Φ55 shock body on this A3 application with 720 discrete damping positions, giving a wide band between comfort and firmness rather than a handful of coarse clicks. It’s built as a dual-purpose kit – road-legal comfort for daily driving, with enough adjustment range to firm up meaningfully for a track session – rather than a setup tuned exclusively for one or the other. XYZ positions Street Advanced as core equipment for drivers who want real control over their car’s behaviour instead of accepting a fixed factory compromise, and the spec reflects that: genuine adjustability at every corner rather than a single spring-and-damper rate.

Fitment for the Audi A3 Sportback (2012-2020)

This kit is specified for the Audi A3 Sportback 8V built between 2012 and 2020 with the twist-beam rear suspension (non-quattro), matched to a Φ55 shock body, and includes the cancellation kit required for cars fitted with Audi’s electronic damping control from the factory. Confirm your car uses the twist-beam rear axle rather than the multi-link quattro layout before ordering, as the two use different rear kits.

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Confirm your A3 Sportback’s rear suspension type and pick your Street Advanced spec in the configurator below.