XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Skoda KODIAQ 4WD φ55 2016-2026

The Kodiaq’s height and kerb weight put more load through the outside dampers than anything else in XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally range, and on a fast, undulating stage that shows up first as body roll, then as an outside front tyre that’s given up grip before the apex. This Tarmac Rally coilover kit is built to keep a tall, all-wheel-drive SUV settled through direction changes on sealed surfaces, where compressions and crests punish soft factory damping hardest.

It’s a deliberate build for a specific job: sealed-stage tarmac rally in a Kodiaq 4WD, not a fast-road compromise. The φ55 strut architecture gives XYZ Racing a fitment to work with on a car that rarely turns up on a stage start line, and the settings reflect that – firm enough to control mass transfer, controlled enough that the road sections between stages don’t beat the car and driver up.

What this coilover does for your 2016-2026 Skoda Kodiaq

Fit a Tarmac Rally kit to a 2016-2026 Skoda Kodiaq 4WD and the biggest change is how the body behaves under compression – over a crest or into a dip at speed, the chassis stays flatter and the outside tyre keeps its contact patch loaded instead of unloading. Damping tuned for big hits absorbs the jolt from broken tarmac and mid-corner ridges without transmitting it straight into the cabin, which matters on a car this size carrying three rows of structure behind the driver. The result is more stable weight transfer through fast direction changes, so the Kodiaq’s natural tendency to roll and pitch is reined in exactly where a rally stage punishes it hardest. Traction improves too – keeping the tyre loaded and the contact patch consistent over rough sections translates directly into earlier, harder throttle application out of a corner.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally coilover is built specifically for sealed-stage competition, where the dominant load case isn’t outright grip but repeated, high-speed impacts from broken and undulating road surfaces. The damper is calibrated to absorb the hit from a big compression or pothole-scarred section of tarmac without the shock body itself bouncing or losing control of the wheel – that’s the difference between a kit that survives a stage and one that gets progressively worse as the stage goes on. Suppressing that secondary shock also keeps more of the tyre’s contact patch working, which is where the traction gains come from rather than any change to the tyre itself. The valving and spring rates in this kit come directly from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally programme, carried over rather than adapted from a road or track-day base, so the balance a driver feels is one that’s already been shaken down on the same kind of stage this Kodiaq application is built to run.

Fitment for the Skoda Kodiaq (2016-2026)

This kit is built for the Skoda Kodiaq 4WD, chassis code SK25, covering the 2016 to 2026 model years with the φ55 strut diameter. It’s a direct fitment for that chassis and drivetrain combination – confirm your Kodiaq is the 4WD variant with the φ55 strut before ordering, as XYZ Racing builds this kit specifically around that architecture rather than a generic Kodiaq platform.

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XYZ Racing builds this Tarmac Rally kit around the 2016-2026 Kodiaq 4WD’s own architecture – configure yours below.