XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz E CLASS W212 6 CYL 4WD 2009-2016

The W212 E-Class 4WD saloon carries its 6-cylinder engine well forward of the front axle, and on the standard air suspension or worn factory dampers that mass shows up as float over motorway undulations and a soft, delayed response when you turn in. The XYZ Racing Street Advanced coilover replaces that setup with a coilover built for enthusiast road use, matched to this chassis’s weight distribution rather than a generic ride-height drop.

For an E-Class 4WD owner who wants sharper body control without sacrificing the car’s daily-driver manners, Street Advanced is the middle ground: adjustable enough to stiffen up for a B-road blast, compliant enough to still make sense as a commuter.

What this coilover does for your 2009-2016 Mercedes Benz E Class W212 6 CYL 4WD

With 720 damping adjustment settings, you can tune the front and rear separately to suit the 4WD platform’s front-heavy bias – winding in more low-speed compression to hold the nose flat under braking, or backing it off for a smoother ride when the car is just doing the school run. The adjustment range means you’re not locked into one compromise setting for the car’s entire ownership. Lowering the ride height also drops the centre of gravity, reducing the amount of roll the 6-cylinder engine’s weight induces mid-corner, and tightens up the visual stance that a factory-height 4WD saloon rarely gets right. Because the damping is adjustable rather than fixed, you can correct for the extra unsprung mass that all-wheel-drive running gear adds at each corner, rather than living with whatever compromise the factory tune landed on.

About the Street Advanced coilover

Street Advanced is XYZ Racing’s highest-volume product, developed over several seasons and refined through testing in races run by teams worldwide before being brought to market as a road-focused unit. It’s built for two overlapping audiences: drivers who want their car sorted for everyday roads, and drivers who also want to turn up to the odd track day without swapping components first. The defining feature is the 720-way damping adjustment, giving a wide enough band to move from a comfort-leaning setting to a firmer, track-day-leaning one without needing a different kit. XYZ position this as the coilover for drivers who want genuine control over how the car sits and reacts, rather than an off-the-shelf drop-and-forget spring kit. On a 4WD platform like the W212, that adjustability is what lets you compensate for the extra driveline weight without overloading the ride.

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

This kit is built specifically for the W212-generation E-Class with the 6-cylinder, 4WD (4MATIC) drivetrain, chassis code ME56, covering model years 2009 to 2016. If your car falls outside this year range or runs a different engine or drivetrain configuration, check the corresponding fitment listing before ordering, as spring rates and mounting points are specific to this drivetrain layout.

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Pick the spec that matches how you’ll actually use the car, then configure yours below.