XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Volkswagen GOLF MK7 Φ55 (Rear Multi-Link Suspension) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2012-2020

The Mk7 Golf’s multi-link rear axle – reserved for GTI, R and other higher-spec variants rather than the torsion-beam base cars – gives XYZ Racing something worth tuning, and the Street Advanced coilover is built to use it. This cancellation-kit version swaps the factory electronic damping control for XYZ’s own 720-way manually adjustable dampers, so owners who’ve grown tired of a software-defined ride get a set of dampers they set with their own hands instead.

Street Advanced sits in XYZ’s range as the road-day product: a spec built for drivers who use their Golf daily and want it sharper on a Saturday-morning B-road or the odd track day, without needing a full competition setup underneath it.

What this coilover does for your 2012-2020 Volkswagen Golf Mk7

Removing the OE electronic damping hardware and its control unit takes a layer of software out of the loop between your right foot and the road – what you feel through the wheel is what the damper is actually doing, not what an algorithm has blended in. On the Golf Mk7’s multi-link rear, that directness shows up most in mid-corner body control: the axle stays located under load instead of hunting for a setting, and the 720-way range lets you firm up compression for a track day without turning the ride brutal for the Monday commute. Ride height is adjustable too, so you can drop the centre of gravity and correct the wheel gap a stock GTI or R carries, while keeping enough travel in reserve for UK B-roads.

About the Street Advanced coilover

Street Advanced is the product XYZ Racing’s engineering team has kept refining the longest, and it’s the one most of their customer base ends up buying: a coilover pitched at drivers who use one car for the road and the odd track session rather than a dedicated race car. The 720-way damping adjustment is the headline figure – a range wide enough that the same set of dampers can be wound off soft for a long motorway run and wound on firm enough to hold the Golf’s nose down under trail braking into a hairpin. XYZ has run development through international racing programmes rather than bench testing alone, so the valving at the softest setting still behaves predictably instead of turning vague. For this Mk7 fitment the kit is built specifically to cancel out the factory electronic damping system, replacing it outright rather than working alongside it – the detail that matters if your car left the factory with adaptive damping fitted.

Fitment for the Volkswagen GOLF MK7 Φ55 (Rr Multi-Link Suspension) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) (2012-2020)

This kit is built for the Volkswagen Golf Mk7, chassis code VO20-2-C, across the 2012 to 2020 production run, specifically for cars fitted with the rear multi-link suspension layout and factory electronic damping control. If your Golf runs the simpler torsion-beam rear axle or was never fitted with electronic damping, this particular cancellation-kit variant is not the correct spec – check your chassis and factory options against the fitment guide before ordering.

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Choose your damping range and ride height for this Golf Mk7 spec in the configurator below, and build yours to match how you actually drive it.