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

Put a quattro-equipped S3 8V into a fast compression followed by a blind crest and the standard dampers run out of ideas quickly – the Haldex-based all-wheel-drive system can only put power down if all four contact patches stay loaded, and stock suspension wasn’t built to soak up the repeated hits a closed tarmac stage throws at it. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is built around that exact problem: keeping the chassis settled and the tyres working through broken surfaces, not just smoothing out a speed bump on the school run.

This is a stage-focused set-up rather than a fast-road compromise. Where a Super Sport kit is tuned for B-road comfort, the Tarmac Rally coilover is calibrated for sustained abuse – crests, compressions and mid-corner ruts taken at pace, back to back, run after run.

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

Fitted to a 2013-2020 Audi S3 Sedan, the biggest change you’ll feel is how the car deals with a big hit mid-corner. Instead of the body kicking or the inside rear wheel unloading, the damper absorbs the impact and keeps the chassis level, which matters enormously on a quattro car trying to distribute torque through all four corners. Suppressing that shock at the strut, rather than letting it travel into the body, keeps the tyre’s contact patch pressed into the tarmac instead of skipping across it – the difference between traction and wheelspin coming out of a compression. The result is a car that stays composed over the kind of surface changes a closed stage guarantees, with the front end tracking through direction changes instead of the nose bouncing off-line.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally coilover is XYZ Racing’s answer to sealed-stage competition, where the road surface is real and imperfect rather than a smoothed track kerb. Its damping is set up specifically to absorb the shock of uneven pavement and larger hits without that energy transferring into body movement, so the car stays planted rather than deflecting off-line. That control is what lets the tyre hold its traction through a stage rather than losing grip every time the surface breaks up. XYZ Racing draws these settings directly from its own tarmac rally programme, so the damping curve reflects what the car actually needs when a stage is run at full pace rather than a theoretical fast-road number.

Fitment for the Audi S3 Sedan (2013-2020)

This kit is built specifically for the Audi S3 Sedan 8V, chassis code AU53, covering the 2013 to 2020 model years with the 55mm (φ55) strut specification. Confirm your S3 Sedan sits within this production run before ordering, as the 8V generation’s strut mounting differs from the earlier 8P and later 8Y cars.

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Configure your Tarmac Rally spec for the Audi S3 Sedan 8V below.