XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Audi S5 B8 4WD 2007-2016

The B8 S5’s quattro layout puts real weight over the front axle, and factory dampers struggle to keep that mass settled once you start driving the car the way its V8 or supercharged V6 suggests you should. XYZ Racing’s Street Advanced coilover is built for exactly this scenario: enthusiast road use with the option to sharpen things up for a track day without swapping parts.

Where the standard coilover gives you a single setting, the Street Advanced adds 720-way damping adjustment, so you can soften the ride for the M62 commute and firm it up before a b-road blast or a circuit session, all from the same set of dampers.

What this coilover does for your 2007-2016 Audi S5

Dialling up compression and rebound tightens body control through direction changes, which matters on a car carrying quattro’s extra front-end hardware – less nose-dive under braking, less float over mid-corner bumps, and a front end that responds when you turn in rather than a beat later. Ride height adjustment lowers the centre of gravity and reduces the S5’s tendency to lean on that front-heavy weight distribution mid-corner, sharpening turn-in without you needing a stiffer anti-roll bar to get there. The 720 damping steps mean you’re not choosing between a comfortable daily and a car that holds its line at speed – you get both from the one setup, adjusted in minutes rather than swapped for. For a car that’s as happy on a motorway run as it is booked into a track day, that range matters more than an outright spring rate number.

About the Street Advanced coilover

XYZ Racing developed the Street Advanced over several seasons using feedback pulled from race programmes run under XYZ’s own banner, and the practical result is a damper that’s tuned to work across ordinary road surfaces rather than only a smooth circuit. It carries 720 individual damping steps, giving a far finer window between full-soft and full-firm than a basic 16- or 32-way unit, useful when you want to nudge the setup slightly rather than jump between two extremes. Construction targets the kind of everyday duty a road car actually sees – potholes, speed bumps, motorway expansion joints – while still holding composure if you take the S5 to a track day. XYZ position this as the coilover for drivers who want genuine control over ride and handling rather than a fixed factory compromise, and the adjustment range reflects that brief rather than a pure competition setup.

Fitment for the Audi S5 B8 (2007-2016)

This kit is built for the B8-generation Audi S5 quattro (chassis code AU28-1), covering model years 2007 through 2016. It’s specified for the 4WD S5 platform, matching the mounting points and geometry of the factory quattro suspension rather than a front-wheel-drive A-platform variant.

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