XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz CLS C218 8 CYL 2011-2018

The V8 cars in the Mercedes-Benz CLS C218 range carry real weight over the front axle, and most of them left the factory riding on air struts – comfortable for motorway miles, but soft and slow to react once the body starts rolling into a fast sweeper. The XYZ Racing Street Advanced coilover replaces that air-spring setup with a coil-over strut and 720 stages of damping adjustment, giving the ME20-2 chassis a fixed, predictable base instead of a self-levelling guess.

This is XYZ’s road-focused kit, built for CLS owners who want sharper turn-in and less nose-dive under braking on a car they still use daily, with enough range in the damping to back it off again for a long motorway trip or a rough B-road.

What this coilover does for your 2011-2018 Mercedes Benz CLS C218 8 CYL

Swapping the CLS C218’s air struts for the Street Advanced coilover puts ride height and damping under your control rather than the car’s self-levelling system, which matters on a chassis this heavy under braking and through direction changes. The 720-way damping adjustment lets you firm the front end up to check that front-axle weight transfer under hard braking, then soften the rear to keep the long wheelbase settled over broken tarmac. Lowering the ride height also drops the centre of gravity on a car that, in V8 form, is carrying a lot of mass high and forward. Day to day, the result is a CLS that turns in with less lean and stops with less dive, without the unpredictability that comes with worn or ageing air suspension components.

About the Street Advanced coilover

Street Advanced is XYZ Racing’s core coilover line, refined over several years of development by the brand’s in-house engineering team and run through testing in races held worldwide before being signed off for retail. It’s built for owners who split their time between normal road use and the occasional track day rather than a car built solely for competition. The headline figure is 720 individual damping settings, giving a far finer window for tuning ride quality against body control than a basic two- or four-way adjustable strut. XYZ pitches it as core equipment for drivers who want genuine pace along with a chassis they can actually place with confidence, and the wide adjustment range is what makes that dual brief work on one set of struts.

Fitment for the Mercedes Benz CLS C218 (2011-2018)

This kit is built for the C218-generation CLS, chassis code ME20-2, covering V8-engined cars built between 2011 and 2018. Confirm your build date falls within that range before ordering, since Mercedes ran a facelift across the C218’s production life.

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Pick your damping and ride height range for the ME20-2 chassis and configure your CLS C218 Street Advanced kit below.