XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz E CLASS W212 4 CYL 2009-2016

The W212 E-Class carries its weight forward and high, a saloon and estate range built by Mercedes for motorway cruising rather than direction changes, and the standard passive dampers reflect that priority. Street Advanced coilovers give the 4-cylinder W212 the missing half of the equation: independent ride height adjustment to correct the factory’s soft, high stance, and 720 steps of damping control to firm the car up when the road gets technical.

This is not a track-only setup. It is built for owners who use their E-Class daily and want the option of tightening things up for a B-road run or an occasional trackday without booking in a second set of dampers. Set it soft for the commute, wind it up for the weekend, and the car stays exactly the size Mercedes built it to be.

What this coilover does for your 2009-2016 Mercedes Benz E Class W212 4 CYL

Lowering and adjusting ride height independently at each corner brings the W212’s centre of gravity down and levels out the nose-heavy stance the factory setup leaves it with, cutting the amount of dive under braking and squat under acceleration that a big turbocharged saloon or estate generates. The 720-way damping range means you are not choosing between a compliant ride and a controlled one – you can run the front noticeably firmer than the rear to calm the understeer the W212 defaults to when you load it up mid-corner, then back the whole car off again for the drive home. Because every setting is reachable from outside the strut, there is no need to strip the car down to try a different balance; you can chase the setup that suits your wheel and tyre combination corner by corner. For an estate regularly carrying weight in the back, the adjustable ride height also lets you correct squat and keep the geometry where you set it rather than where the standard springs settle.

About the Street Advanced coilover

Street Advanced is XYZ Racing’s core road-and-trackday product, built from feedback gathered over years of running its dampers in competition worldwide and folded back into the version sold for road cars. The headline figure is 720 distinct damping positions, a far finer gradient between soft and firm than a simple multi-click adjuster, so you land on a setting rather than jump past it. It is aimed at drivers who use the car on the road every day but want the same kit underneath as something that has seen a start line, without needing a dedicated track car to justify it. The construction favours consistency across that damping range, so the kit behaves the same way at position 200 as it does at 600, with no flat spots where the adjuster stops doing anything useful. For a 4-cylinder W212 that spends most of its life on UK roads with the odd trackday thrown in, that range is the whole point – one set of dampers doing two jobs instead of splitting the difference on both.

Fitment for the Mercedes Benz E Class W212 4 CYL (2009-2016)

This kit is built specifically for the W212-chassis E-Class with the 4-cylinder engine, covering the 2009 to 2016 model years. Chassis code ME12 in our system corresponds to this exact W212 4-cylinder range, so check your build plate matches before ordering – the 6-cylinder W212 uses a different kit.

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Pick your damping range and ride height for the W212 and configure yours below.