XYZ Racing Pro Racing Gravel/Snow Coilovers — Audi S3 SPORTBACK 8V φ55 (Modified Rear Integrated) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2013-2020

The S3 Sportback 8V’s factory electronic damping is built for a compliant road ride, not for a car that needs to shrug off compressions on loose surfaces at speed. Fitting this Pro Racing Gravel/Snow coilover means running the cancellation kit that removes the electronic damper control entirely, replacing it with a mechanical, driver-set damper that doesn’t care what the road surface is doing underneath it.

This is a rally and rallycross-oriented kit, not a circuit-only setup, and the longer front and rear travel is the giveaway. On an 8V Sportback that’s carrying quattro drivetrain weight low and rearward, that extra stroke keeps the wheels tracking the ground through compressions instead of topping or bottoming out the moment the surface breaks up.

What this coilover does for your 2013-2020 Audi S3 SPORTBACK 8V φ55 (Modified Rr Integrated) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping)

With the electronic damping cancelled out, you get a mechanical 3-knob adjuster that lets you set compression and rebound independently of any factory drive-mode logic – useful on an 8V where the stock system was never calibrated for gravel or snow in the first place. The increased suspension oil and nitrogen gas volume is the practical difference on longer stages or repeated runs: more fluid means more thermal mass, so the shock oil takes longer to heat up and the damping stays consistent instead of fading as the run goes on. That matters on the S3’s quattro platform specifically, because the extra weight over the rear axle means the dampers are working harder on every compression than they would on a front-drive-only car. The longer travel front and rear also buys real margin against harsh bottoming when a gravel or snow surface throws up an unexpected dip, which is exactly where a road-biased coilover would run out of stroke.

About the Pro Racing Gravel/Snow coilover

This design started life for rally and rallycross use, where the demands are different from tarmac circuit driving – longer suspension travel front and rear gives the car a bigger buffer before the damper runs out of room, which is what keeps the chassis settled when the surface underneath is inconsistent. The standout engineering choice is the increased internal volume of suspension oil and nitrogen gas, which raises the thermal capacity of the damper and stops oil temperature climbing to the point where performance drops off after sustained hard use. The 3 adjustment knobs run through deliberately small oil-hole passages, and on big hits you may hear some noise as fluid moves through those narrow channels – that’s a function of the design, not a fault, and it’s expected when the coilover is doing its job over rough terrain. The whole unit is built with circuit and stage use in mind, so bumps and surface irregularities that would trouble a road-tuned damper are within its intended operating range.

Fitment for the Audi S3 SPORTBACK 8V φ55 (Modified Rr Integrated) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) (2013-2020)

Built for the Audi S3 Sportback 8V, chassis code AU52-C, covering the 2013 to 2020 production run. This is the φ55 rear-integrated specification with the electronic damping cancellation kit included, so the factory drive-mode-linked dampers are replaced outright rather than run alongside the mechanical adjusters.

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