XYZ Racing Pro Rally Coilovers — Audi S3 SPORTBACK 8V φ55 (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2013-2020

The S3 Sportback 8V’s Haldex-based quattro system sends power rearward as load builds, and on loose gravel or snow that shift in bias is exactly what a rally crew needs the chassis to communicate honestly through the seat, not mask through soft factory bushing. Stock Audi Drive Select damping is tuned for hot-hatch commuting, not for a car being thrown sideways into a hairpin at pace-note speed.

XYZ Racing’s Pro Rally coilover replaces that electronic system outright with a fully mechanical, competition-focused set-up built for top-flight rally use, and this fitment includes the cancellation kit needed to remove Audi’s factory electronic damping control from the equation. It is the spec for a car being built to compete, not one dressed up to look the part on a fast road.

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

Cancelling the factory electronic damping control means the ECU stops hunting for a damper it can no longer talk to, so there are no adaptive-suspension fault codes fighting the new set-up once the Pro Rally kit is fitted. In their place you get damping a co-driver can trust to stay consistent run after run, on a car whose Haldex quattro system already wants to move mass rearward under power – the coilover’s job is to keep that transfer controlled rather than unpredictable across ruts, crests and compressions a road-tuned S3 was never set up to absorb. Ride height and corner weighting can be set to suit the stage rather than the school run, and the platform holds that setting under the kind of repeated hard landings gravel and snow events produce.

About the Pro Rally coilover

XYZ Racing builds its gravel and snow rally suspension in two distinct forms. An amateur-spec version bolts directly to the original chassis mounting points for owners stepping up from road use. The Pro Rally kit fitted here is the professional-spec version, engineered for cars whose bodyshell has already been modified for competition rather than for a stock unibody. That distinction matters because top-flight rally use puts far higher shock loads through the mounting structure than any road coilover, tarmac track kit, or fast-road set-up will ever see, and the professional-spec construction is built to carry those loads without the mounting points working loose stage after stage. For the S3 Sportback 8V, that means a set-up developed around cars already prepared to competition standard, not adapted from a road part after the fact.

Fitment for the Audi S3 Sportback (2013-2020)

This kit is specified for the Audi S3 Sportback 8V, chassis code AU51-C, across the 2013 to 2020 production run, and includes the cancellation kit required where the car was fitted from the factory with electronic adaptive damping control.

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Spec is everything on a car built for stages, not showrooms – configure your Audi S3 Sportback Pro Rally kit below.