XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz C CLASS W204 6 CYL (Modified Rear Integrated) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2007-2014

The W204 C-Class carries its six-cylinder lump well ahead of the front axle line, and on a rough closed-road stage that weight pitches forward hard the instant you’re on the brakes into a compression or a blind crest. Left on the factory setup, that nose-heavy bias shows up as dive under braking and a front end that loads unevenly the moment the surface breaks up. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is built specifically to manage that on sealed-stage work, where the road stays tarmac but the surface quality, camber and mid-corner bumps do not.

This kit pairs with the cancellation kit for electronic damping, which lets the coilover take over ride control completely rather than fighting the W204’s factory adaptive damper electronics. Combined with the modified rear integrated shock mounting, it’s a setup built to run big hits at speed without the car second-guessing itself.

What this coilover does for your 2007-2014 Mercedes Benz C Class W204

Fitted to a 6-cylinder W204, the Tarmac Rally coilover controls the forward weight transfer that this engine layout produces under hard braking into a stage corner, keeping the front axle loaded evenly instead of diving and washing out grip. The damper is set up to absorb the jolt from broken tarmac, potholed lanes and pavement transitions without the shock body kicking back through the chassis, which keeps the rear planted over successive bumps rather than skipping. Because the cancellation kit removes the factory electronic damping control from the equation, there’s no conflict between the car’s stock adaptive system and the fixed mechanical damping this coilover runs, so the ride quality you set is the ride quality you get, stage after stage. The result on a W204 running these rear-integrated shocks is a car that holds its line over the kind of surface changes that unsettle a standard C-Class, with tyre contact patch working harder rather than skating over crests.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

XYZ Racing built the Tarmac Rally coilover around one job: soaking up the abuse of uneven closed-road stages without letting that abuse reach the driver. The valving is tuned to absorb sharp impacts across big compressions and broken surfaces, controlling shock body movement so the car stays composed rather than pattering or bottoming out. That control also does double duty for grip, keeping the tyre pressed into the road through the disturbance instead of letting it skip, which is where the stability comes from through fast, rough sections. The damping settings themselves come directly from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally programme rather than a generic road-car baseline, carried over into this kit for the W204 platform with the rear geometry and cancellation-kit compatibility this specific fitment needs.

Fitment for the Mercedes Benz C Class W204 (2007-2014)

This kit is built for the 6-cylinder Mercedes Benz C-Class W204, chassis code ME06-1-C, covering the 2007 to 2014 production run. It’s specified with the modified rear integrated shock mounting and includes the cancellation kit required to run manual coilover damping in place of the factory electronic damping system on these cars.

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Pick your spec below to get the Tarmac Rally kit set up for your ME06-1-C W204.