XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Audi S3 SPORTBACK 8V φ55 2013-2020

The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover for the Audi S3 Sportback 8V φ55 is built for a surface the racetrack never gives you: closed public road, resurfaced in patches, cambered towards the verge, and studded with the odd unmarked pothole a recce note either caught or didn’t. On the 8V’s MQB-derived quattro platform the front axle takes the brunt of that abuse under braking and turn-in, before the Haldex-driven rear axle hauls the car back onto line out of the apex.

Where a circuit-biased coilover chases minimum ride height and maximum lateral grip on a smooth surface, the Tarmac Rally spec is tuned to keep all four corners loaded and the body settled when the road itself is the variable. That’s the job this kit is built for – sealed-stage tarmac rally, not a closed circuit.

What this coilover does for your 2013-2020 Audi S3 Sportback

Fitted to your 2013-2020 S3 Sportback, this coilover is calibrated to absorb the impact of broken and uneven tarmac rather than transmit it straight into the chassis. Where a big compression – a crest landing, a mid-stage lip – would normally kick the body and unsettle the quattro system’s torque split, the damper absorbs that jolt and keeps the chassis composed instead of letting it bounce out of line. That composure matters directly for tyre traction: a wheel that stays loaded on a broken surface puts more rubber down than one that’s skipping over it, and on the 8V’s nose-heavy weight distribution, keeping the front contact patches planted through turn-in is most of the battle. The result on stage is a car that holds its line over a surface change instead of stepping wide, and a rear axle that can actually use the torque quattro sends it instead of arriving unloaded.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally line is XYZ Racing’s damper spec built specifically around sealed-stage tarmac rallying rather than circuit lapping or fast-road driving. The valving is set up to absorb the impact of rough and uneven road surfaces – the kind of broken tarmac a closed stage throws up that a racetrack never does – and to soak up big compressions without kicking the body or unsettling the chassis. That control is what keeps the tyre loaded and gripping through the impact rather than skipping across it, and it’s the same balance that keeps the car stable enough to hold a genuinely fast line rather than just surviving the surface. XYZ built the damping character into this spec from its own Tarmac Rally programme, so the settings reflect what the surface actually does to a car at speed rather than a generic fast-road tune stretched to cover rally use. It’s a coilover for drivers running closed-road stages who need the chassis settled on tarmac that a circuit-bred kit was never asked to handle.

Fitment for the Audi S3 Sportback (2013-2020)

This kit is fitted specifically to the Audi S3 Sportback 8V φ55 chassis (AU51), covering the 2013 to 2020 model years. Confirm your car sits within that chassis and year span before ordering, as damper valving and mounting are matched to the 8V platform’s specific geometry.

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This Tarmac Rally kit is built to your S3 Sportback’s exact chassis spec – configure yours below.