XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Audi A5 B8 SPORTBACK 4WD 2009-2016

The B8 A5 Sportback carries its quattro hardware up front, and that nose-heavy layout is exactly where a fixed factory damper runs out of ideas – soaking up a B-road crest fine, then wallowing on the way back down under load. XYZ Racing’s Super Sport coilover exists for that middle ground: a car that sees a Monday commute and a Sunday trackday without needing two different setups underneath it.

Where the standard suspension gives you one compromise, this kit gives you a dial. Ride height and damping both adjust independently, which matters on a Sportback carrying extra glass and a longer roofline than the standard A5 – get the corner weights right and the nose stops pushing wide mid-corner.

What this coilover kit does for your 2009-2016 Audi A5

Drop the ride height and you immediately claw back some of the nose-heavy weight transfer that defines this platform under braking – less dive, more of the front tyre’s contact patch staying loaded when you turn in. The 36-way damping adjustment is the bigger win for a quattro car specifically: with drive going to all four corners, uneven damping front-to-rear shows up as understeer on the way in and a strange, driven push on the way out. Wind the fronts up a few clicks and that balance shifts back toward the driver. Around town, the low settings keep the ride liveable – this is a Sportback that still needs to carry passengers and luggage, not just lap times. On track, firming everything up cuts the body roll that a stock A5 telegraphs the moment quattro sends power down under load.

About the Super Sport coilover

XYZ Racing built the Super Sport around a straightforward brief: stop dampers making rough roads worse. The 36-way adjustment range lets you tune from a genuinely comfortable daily setting through to a firm, track-day state without swapping parts – one damper doing both jobs properly rather than compromising on either. Ride height is independently adjustable too, so lowering the car doesn’t force you to run whatever spring rate happened to come with it. XYZ position this as the kit for owners who want one car to do a weekend race and then drive home on it, which is the exact use case a quattro Sportback owner is usually shopping for – something firmer than stock without turning the car into a track-only tool.

Fitment for the Audi A5 B8 Sportback 4WD (2009-2016)

This kit is built specifically for the B8-chassis A5 Sportback in its 4WD quattro configuration, chassis code AU28, covering model years 2009 through 2016. Front and rear geometry is matched to the Sportback’s quattro drivetrain layout, not the front-wheel-drive A5 variants, so confirm your car is the 4WD Sportback before ordering.

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Pick your ride height and damping range for the B8 Sportback below, and configure yours to match how much of this car’s life is spent on track versus the road.