XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz CLS C219 6 CYL 2004-2011

The C219-generation CLS carries its weight low and forward – a long-nosed 6-cylinder engine sitting ahead of a car that tips the scales past two tonnes – and the factory springs were tuned for a soft, boulevard ride rather than any real body control. XYZ Racing’s Street Advanced coilover kit for the Mercedes Benz CLS C219 replaces that compliance-first setup with a platform built around 720 damping adjustment increments, giving enough range to hold the nose down under braking without turning a grand tourer into something twitchy.

This is the road-biased end of XYZ’s coilover range, built for the CLS C219 owner who drives the car daily, takes it to the occasional trackday, and wants the C219’s low, raked coupe silhouette to sit right without giving up the ride quality that made this car desirable in the first place.

What this coilover does for your 2004-2011 Mercedes Benz CLS C219

Drop the CLS onto this kit and the first thing you’ll notice is reduced nose dive under braking, useful given how much of the 6-cylinder’s mass sits ahead of the front axle on this chassis. Independently adjustable ride height lets you close the CLS’s famously large wheel arch gaps without resorting to shorter, unrated springs that eat into the damper’s working range. The 720-way damping adjustment gives enough granularity to soften low-speed compression for motorway journeys, then firm the rebound up for a B-road or trackday session, without swapping components. Body control through direction changes improves too – the C219’s length and weight mean uncontrolled rebound shows up as float over crests and dips, and this kit’s stiffer, better-damped platform keeps the chassis settled where the factory setup struggled.

About the Street Advanced coilover

Street Advanced sits at the core of XYZ Racing’s coilover line-up, developed and refined over several years by XYZ’s in-house engineering team and validated through competition use at circuits worldwide before reaching this road-going kit. It’s positioned as a dual-purpose product, equally suited to normal road use as it is to a trackday outing, rather than a stripped-back competition-only part. The headline figure is 720 damping adjusting increments, a wide range for a kit pitched at road driving, and it’s what lets an owner move between a comfort-leaning setting for daily use and a noticeably firmer one for a spirited drive or track session. XYZ frames this as essential kit for a driver chasing both speed and control from the same car, and on a chassis as heavy as the CLS C219, having that much adjustment range to compensate for the extra mass matters more than it would on a lighter car.

Fitment for the Mercedes Benz CLS C219 (2004-2011)

This kit is specified for the Mercedes Benz CLS C219, chassis code ME21, across the 6-cylinder engine range built between 2004 and 2011. If your car falls within that production window and carries a 6-cylinder engine, this is the correct spec for your chassis.

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Configure your Street Advanced kit for the CLS C219 below, choosing the spec that matches how you actually use the car.