XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz E CLASS W124 4 CYL (Modified Front Integrated) 1986-1995

The W124’s swing-arm front geometry and comparatively soft factory damping were built for motorway comfort, not for holding a line through a fast B-road. Once you start pushing a four-cylinder W124 through direction changes, the standard suspension telegraphs its age fast, with body roll arriving well before the front end has said everything it has to say. XYZ Racing’s Street Advanced kit exists to close that gap without turning the car into something you dread driving to the shops.

This is the mid-tier XYZ Racing coilover: firmer and more adjustable than a basic street set, but still built around ride comfort rather than outright lap time. For a 1986-1995 E Class W124 that’s covering daily miles and the occasional spirited drive, that balance is the point – you get real control over how the car sits and handles without signing up for a stiff, track-only ride every time you start the engine.

What this coilover does for your 1986-1995 Mercedes Benz E Class

Fit the Street Advanced kit to a W124 and the first thing you’ll notice is how much less the nose dives under braking and how much later the body starts to roll into a corner. The 720-way damping adjustment means you can run the front end firm enough to sharpen turn-in on the modified front-integrated setup, then back it off for a motorway run without touching a spanner. Ride height is also adjustable independently of spring preload, so you can drop the W124’s stance to clean up its aerodynamics and lower the centre of gravity without compromising suspension travel or crashing over expansion joints. For a chassis this old, tightening up the front end also does a lot to mask the general give that develops in aging bushings and mounts, giving the wheel a more direct, connected feel through the corner.

About the Street Advanced coilover

XYZ Racing developed the Street Advanced line over several years specifically to sit between comfort-focused street coilovers and full competition setups, and the W124 kit carries the same spec as the rest of the range. Development and validation happened through XYZ’s motorsport programme, with the damper internals refined against feedback from race teams running XYZ hardware, before that knowledge was carried down into the street product. The headline figure is 720 damping adjustment positions, giving a genuinely fine-grained range between plush and firm rather than the handful of clicks you get on cheaper adjustable dampers. Construction favours durability for road use – the kind of setup meant to be adjusted occasionally and then left alone, rather than fiddled with between every session. XYZ pitches Street Advanced at drivers who want more feedback and body control on the road, with enough range to make the occasional track day worthwhile, without needing a second set of coilovers for weekday driving.

Fitment for the Mercedes Benz E Class W124 (1986-1995)

This kit is built for the W124-chassis E Class fitted with a four-cylinder engine and the modified front-integrated mounting configuration, covering the 1986 to 1995 production run. Chassis code ME45 identifies the specific front hardware and mounting points this kit is engineered around, so it’s matched to the four-cylinder W124’s factory geometry rather than a generic multi-fit design. Confirm your engine and front mounting configuration against your logbook before ordering, since W124 variants split across several different front-end setups across this production span.

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Pick your damping and ride height range for the W124’s modified front-integrated setup, and configure yours below.