XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Audi A3 8V Φ50 (Rear Multi-Link Suspension) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2012-2020

The A3 8V’s rear multi-link axle – fitted to the higher-output and quattro variants of this generation rather than the torsion-beam cars further down the range – gives this chassis a genuine second axis of control that most hot hatches in the class don’t have. Leave the factory dampers in charge of it, especially when they’re tied into Audi’s electronic damping control, and that hardware is doing very little for a driver who actually wants to feel the rear axle working.

This Super Sport kit replaces that setup with a fully mechanical 36-way adjustable coilover, built for fast-road driving with regular track days rather than a car that only ever sees speed bumps and the school run. Because this fitment is supplied with the cancellation kit for the factory electronic damping system, the A3’s own control unit is taken out of the loop rather than left fighting hardware it can no longer read.

What this coilover does for your 2012-2020 Audi A3

Once the electronic damper signal is cancelled and the Super Sport units are in, ride height and damping become things you set, not things the car negotiates on your behalf. The 36-way adjustment gives you a genuine spread – soften it off for a motorway run to the circuit, then wind in compression and rebound before your first session without pulling the car apart to do it. Lowering the ride height on a coilover kit also drops the centre of gravity, which on a multi-link A3 sharpens turn-in and cuts the body roll that lets the rear axle wander under hard direction changes. For an owner running this car on both the road and a track day calendar, that’s the difference between a chassis that reacts to inputs and one that’s still working out what you asked it to do.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is built around a damper designed specifically to take the edge off British B-roads and motorway expansion joints without turning soft the moment you load the car up hard. Ride height is independently adjustable front and rear, so corner weighting and rake can be set properly rather than guessed at, and the 36 damping positions cover a genuinely wide spread – from a setting compliant enough for daily use through to a firmer, track-day state without a full rebuild. It’s pitched deliberately at drivers who split their time between road and weekend circuit work rather than committing to a car that’s only good for one or the other. On the A3 8V specifically, that means a kit engineered to cope with UK road surfaces first, with the adjustment range to firm up properly when the car reaches a track.

Fitment for the Audi A3 8V (2012-2020)

This kit is built for the Audi A3 8V, 2012 to 2020, specifically the Φ50-strut, rear multi-link chassis variant, and is supplied with the cancellation kit required to disable the car’s factory electronic damping control. Confirm your car has the multi-link rear axle rather than a torsion beam before ordering, since the two use different rear hardware. If your A3 doesn’t carry factory electronic damping, this specific cancellation-kit variant isn’t the one you need.

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