XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Audi A3 8V Φ55 (Rear Twist- beam Suspension) 2012-2020

The A3 8V’s torsion-beam rear axle keeps this platform simple and light, but that same simplicity means the rear end telegraphs every crest, camber change and mid-corner bump straight into the cabin – exactly the surface texture a closed tarmac stage throws at a car. XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally coilover for the Audi A3 8V Φ55 rear twist-beam cars is built around that reality rather than around a smooth circuit.

Where a track-focused kit chases the lowest possible ride height for grip on a billiard-table surface, this Tarmac Rally spec keeps enough working travel in the strut to absorb a stage’s mid-corner ridges and pothole-scarred apex kerbs without kicking the rear beam sideways. It’s a kit built for cars that need to stay planted from the recce lap to the flying finish, not just for one clean qualifying run.

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

Fit this to a 2012-2020 A3 and the twist-beam rear stops skating over broken tarmac the way it does on the standard dampers, because the valving is tuned to soak up a big hit rather than transmit it straight into the beam and on into the front axle’s line. Traction off a hairpin improves because the rear tyres stay loaded through a bump instead of unweighting on it. The front end holds its line into a compression crest where a stock A3 would run out of damper control and float, which matters more across a stage than it does on a smooth b-road. Ride height is adjustable independently of spring preload, so you can set stage-realistic ground clearance without disturbing the corner-weight balance you’ve settled on. The Φ55 damper body gives the kit the oil volume to keep that control consistent as the stage goes on, rather than fading as the dampers heat up.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

XYZ Racing built the Tarmac Rally line specifically to deal with rough, broken and cambered tarmac rather than the flat asphalt of a permanent circuit. The damper is calibrated to soak up the impact of an uneven road surface and take the edge off a big hit across a compression or a mid-corner ridge, which keeps the body from pitching and keeps the tyre’s contact patch loaded through the event instead of skipping across it. That control is what XYZ points to as the source of the car’s stability through a stage – less body movement translates directly into a tyre that holds its grip rather than one that’s constantly resettling. The valving and spring rates in this kit come from XYZ’s own Tarmac Rally programme, carried over from cars they’ve run on closed-road stages rather than derived from circuit testing.

Fitment for the Audi A3 (2012-2020)

This kit is built specifically for Audi A3 8V models fitted with the Φ55 rear twist-beam suspension – chassis code AU12-4-4 – covering the 2012 to 2020 production run. It is not the correct spec for multi-link quattro A3 8V variants; confirm your car uses the twist-beam rear axle before ordering.

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Configure your Audi A3 8V Tarmac Rally spec below and set the ride height ahead of your first stage.