XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz CLA35 C118 4WD φ55.5 2019-2025

The CLA35 C118’s 4MATIC layout carries more weight over the front axle than its shooting-brake styling suggests, and on a tarmac stage that nose-heavy balance shows up the moment the road breaks or crests mid-corner. XYZ Racing built the Tarmac Rally coilover around that exact problem – a shock that can settle the front end fast after a compression, then get the power down again before the next direction change arrives.

This is a stage-specific spec, not a fast-road compromise. Closed tarmac stages throw up broken surfaces, camber changes and hidden dips that a circuit never will, and the CLA35’s turbocharged AWD platform needs a damper that keeps working after the twentieth hit of a stage, not just the first.

What this coilover does for your 2019-2025 Mercedes Benz CLA35 C118 4WD

Fitted to a 2019-2025 CLA35 C118, this coilover keeps the front axle loaded through the kind of surface breaks and crests that unsettle a factory-tuned AMG suspension. The big-bore φ55.5 shock body gives the damper more internal volume to work with, which matters on stages where the shock is cycling constantly rather than resting between corners as it would on a smooth circuit. That extra volume helps the damper resist the heat build-up that causes fade over a long stage, so the CLA35’s 4MATIC system keeps finding traction on the exit of a corner rather than spinning up over a broken surface. The result on the road is a front end that reads bumps and compressions instead of skipping across them, and a rear axle that stays settled enough for the AWD system to put power down predictably through a sequence of corners.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally line is built around absorbing the kind of impacts a closed-road stage throws at a car that a track surface simply doesn’t produce – broken tarmac, sharp crests, and compressions that arrive without warning. The damper is tuned to soak up a hard hit across a big bump without transmitting that shock straight into the body, which keeps the tyre loaded and searching for grip rather than skipping off the surface. That control over body movement is what XYZ Racing describes as giving the car a stable, predictable feel through a stage rather than one that reacts unpredictably to every surface change. The valving in this range comes directly from XYZ Racing’s own Tarmac Rally programme, so the compression and rebound settings reflect what has actually worked when a car has to cover a stage at speed rather than a single flying lap.

Fitment for the Mercedes Benz CLA35 C118 4WD φ55.5 (2019-2025)

This kit is built for the Mercedes Benz CLA35 C118 4WD, chassis code ME28-2, covering the 2019 to 2025 model years with the φ55.5 shock body specification. Confirm your CLA35 sits within that chassis code and year range before ordering, as the C118 shares underpinnings with related Mercedes models but is not interchangeable with them.

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