XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz CLK C209 5/6 CYL 2002-2007

The CLK C209’s long bonnet and front-engine, rear-drive layout put real weight over the nose on turn-in, and on a closed tarmac stage that weight transfer arrives faster than any B-road ever asks for. A Tarmac Rally coilover is built around that exact problem: repeated, hard direction changes over surfaces that are rarely as smooth as a circuit, where the standard damper simply runs out of ideas.

For a 5 or 6-cylinder C209 built between 2002 and 2007, that means a suspension setup tuned to keep the chassis flat and predictable when the road surface changes mid-corner, not just when it’s billiard-table smooth. This is the spec for owners running stages, not just fast road miles.

What this coilover does for your 2002-2007 Mercedes Benz CLK C209

Fitted to the CLK C209, this kit is built to soak up the compressions and crests that a tarmac stage throws at a car far more aggressively than daily driving does. The damper absorbs the jolt from sharp, uneven inputs – kerbs, patched tarmac, mid-corner bumps – without kicking the body off line, which keeps the CLK’s nose planted through direction changes instead of skipping. Suppressing that shock body movement is what keeps the tyre’s contact patch loaded and working, rather than unweighting over every ripple. The result on the CLK is a car that stays composed when the surface underneath it doesn’t, with stability that lets you commit to a line through a stage corner rather than reacting to it. Every setting on this kit comes from XYZ’s own tarmac rally programme, so the C209 isn’t getting a generic road spring rate stretched to cover rally use.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is XYZ Racing’s damper built specifically for sealed-stage rallying, where the car needs to absorb repeated hard impacts from uneven pavement without losing composure lap after lap of a stage. Rather than a road-biased valving curve, this unit is set up to handle big hits – kerbs, camber changes, mid-corner bumps – while actively suppressing body movement so the tyre keeps its grip through the impact rather than skating over it. That combination of impact absorption and body control is what XYZ describes as increasing traction under load: the damper is doing the work of keeping the contact patch consistent so the driver doesn’t have to compensate for it. The tuning behind it comes directly from XYZ’s own tarmac rally campaigns, translated into a road-legal coilover rather than a one-event competition part. It’s a chassis-stability-first design: the priority is a car that handles predictably when the surface underneath it is anything but predictable.

Fitment for the Mercedes Benz CLK C209 (2002-2007)

This kit is built specifically for the Mercedes Benz CLK C209, chassis code ME20, covering 5 and 6-cylinder variants produced between 2002 and 2007. If your CLK falls inside that production window and engine spread, this coilover is matched to your car’s mounting points and suspension geometry rather than adapted from a different Mercedes platform.

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Every ME20-chassis CLK from 2002 to 2007 is covered by this fitment – configure yours below to pick your spec.