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

The S3 Sedan 8V’s factory adaptive damping electronics were built for B-road commuting, not loose-surface stage work, which is why this Pro Rally build starts by cancelling that system rather than fighting it. Audi’s electronic ride control assumes a comfort baseline and a static ride height; neither survives contact with a rutted gravel special stage or a snow-packed forest section, and the φ55 kit swaps that logic out for coilovers you set yourself.

Pro Rally is XYZ Racing’s top-flight rally spec, built for the kind of quattro-driven, four-cylinder MQB platform that the S3 shares with its VW Group siblings, where ride height and wheel travel have to suit terrain that changes stage to stage rather than lap to lap. On a car sending drive through all four corners, that means damping and spring rates that can absorb a compression event on one axle without unsettling the other three.

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

Cancelling the S3’s electronic damping control removes the single biggest headache in fitting a proper rally coilover to this chassis: the factory ECU no longer fights a suspension setup it wasn’t designed to recognise, so the ride you build is the ride you get, stage after stage. Independent ride height adjustment lets you raise the S3 Sedan for stage clearance without resorting to taller tyres or spacers that throw the quattro driveline’s geometry out. The quattro system already sends power to all four corners under load, and a coilover built for rough-surface compression keeps that power transfer consistent rather than letting one corner bottom out and unload the diff mid-corner. Because the kit is built around the φ55 strut diameter specific to this chassis, the S3’s MQB front end keeps its factory geometry points rather than needing bespoke top mounts.

About the Pro Rally coilover

XYZ Racing builds the Pro Rally range specifically for gravel and snow stage work, and the line splits into two distinct installation approaches depending on how far the car has been taken. The first bolts straight into the S3’s original chassis mounting points with no cutting or fabrication – the route most road-registered rally cars on this platform take. The second is built for cars that have already had their bodywork modified for competition, with reinforced turrets and relocated mounting points, and the coilover is specced to match that altered geometry rather than the factory one. Both approaches share the same rally-focused brief: dampers and springs sized for repeated hard compression events on broken surfaces, not the smooth, predictable loading of a tarmac circuit. For an S3 Sedan running the φ55 cancellation kit, that means suspension built to shrug off the kind of hit a pothole or rut delivers at speed, rather than one tuned for a circuit’s consistent camber and surface.

Fitment for the Audi S3 Sedan 8V φ55 (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) (2013-2020)

This kit is specced for the Audi S3 Sedan 8V built between 2013 and 2020, using the φ55 strut diameter paired with the cancellation kit needed to disable the factory electronic damping control fitted to cars ordered with it. Confirm your S3 came with adaptive damping before selecting this variant – if it didn’t, the standard Pro Rally kit for this chassis is the correct fit.

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Spec is everything on a rally build, and the right choice depends on which of the two Pro Rally installation types matches your S3’s current build state – pick your spec below to get started.