XYZ Racing Racing Spec Coilovers — Peugeot 2008 (A94) φ51 2013-2019

The 2008 (A94)’s raised crossover ride height and factory-soft spring rates were tuned for kerb visibility and ride comfort, not for the trail-braking loads a time-attack session puts through the front axle. Sharing its EMP1 underpinnings with Peugeot’s 208 hot-hatch line, the A94 has the bones for serious track work – it just needs the suspension to catch up. XYZ Racing’s Racing Spec coilover kit is built for exactly that gap: a threaded, height- and damping-adjustable platform aimed at drivers running full sessions rather than the odd bumpy B-road.

This is the range built for circuit and time-attack use, not fast-road comfort. Ride height comes down enough to correct the centre-of-gravity penalty that comes with the taller crossover body, and the damper internals are set up to control weight transfer under hard braking and direction changes rather than soak up potholes.

What this coilover does for your 2013-2019 Peugeot 2008

Drop the ride height on the A94 and you immediately claw back the centre-of-gravity penalty that comes with the raised crossover body – less roll through direction changes, less of the nose-dive under braking that a taller ride height otherwise amplifies. Because this is a front-wheel-drive platform sharing its front subframe geometry with the 208, stability into slow corners under trail braking depends heavily on how well the front dampers control load transfer; the Racing Spec kit’s damping curve is set up to hold the front axle down rather than let it dive and unload the outside front tyre. Independent height and damping adjustment lets you correct the factory’s soft, comfort-biased rates without touching alignment geometry twice, and the firmer overall setup cuts the squat under power that a taller crossover body would otherwise exaggerate through a fast chicane.

About the Racing Spec coilover

XYZ Racing developed the Racing Spec line specifically for wheel-to-wheel and time-attack use, and the damping settings aren’t generic – they come out of direct involvement in circuit racing series including the WTCC, so the base valving reflects what a car actually needs under repeated hard laps rather than a single fast road drive. For cars carrying heavier modification – bigger brakes, wider wheels, aero, or a genuinely built track spec – XYZ Racing also offers a custom shock absorber service: supply the detail of what else has been changed on the car and which circuit it’s run at, and the dampers get valved around that specific combination instead of a generic curve. For a standard A94 build, the off-the-shelf Racing Spec kit already carries that racing-derived base tune, giving a platform that’s seen far harder circuit mileage in development than a road car normally sees.

Fitment for the Peugeot 2008 (2013-2019)

This kit is built to the A94 chassis code, covering Peugeot 2008 production from 2013 to 2019 – the first-generation, EMP1-based crossover. Confirm your registration falls within this build window before ordering, since the platform changed significantly at the second-generation model change.

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Ride height, damping range and the custom shock absorber option all vary by spec – configure yours below.