XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Audi A3 8V Φ50 (Rear Multi-Link Suspension) 2012-2020

The 8V A3 built with the multi-link rear axle – fitted to the more powerful variants in this range rather than the torsion-beam cars – gives you a genuinely independent rear end to tune, not just a beam to lower. That geometry is worth exploiting properly, and the factory ride height and spring rates were never set up with a firm, planted rear in mind. XYZ Racing’s Street Advanced kit is built for exactly this gap: enthusiast road use with the adjustability to react to what the car is actually doing underneath you, rather than a fixed compromise.

This is the mid-tier XYZ coilover – firmer and more adjustable than a comfort-biased kit, but still built around everyday usability rather than a stripped-out track-only setup. For an A3 8V that’s doing daily miles with the odd track day mixed in, that’s the right starting point: enough range to firm things up for a circuit outing, enough compliance to leave in the softer end for the commute.

What this coilover does for your 2012-2020 Audi A3

Drop the ride height on the multi-link rear and the roll centre geometry starts working the way it should, rather than fighting the factory-spec squish. With 720 damping adjustment steps available, you’re not choosing between two or three coarse settings – you can find a compression and rebound balance that suits your specific spring choice and use, then leave it there. Firming up the rear damping curbs the pitch and pogo the A3’s rear end can show under quick direction changes, while the front end responds faster to inputs instead of loading up gradually. Lower the car and the roll centres correct themselves too, cutting the body roll that eats into front-end grip through fast direction changes. The adjustability means the same kit does duty on a cold, wet commute and a dry track session – you’re changing clicks, not buying two sets of dampers.

About the Street Advanced coilover

XYZ’s Street Advanced sits in the catalogue as the brand’s most widely specified kit, developed over successive seasons by XYZ’s engineering team and validated through use in motorsport competition worldwide before being brought down to road-going spec. It’s built specifically to bridge normal road use and track day work rather than commit fully to either – which is why the damping range runs to 720 individual steps rather than a handful of fixed settings. That range means the same strut can be wound up firm enough to control body movement on track, then backed off again for a smoother ride home. It’s aimed squarely at drivers who want their own car dialled to their own preferences, not a generic off-the-shelf ride height and spring rate. For the multi-link 8V A3 specifically, that adjustability matters more than it would on a simpler rear axle, because there’s more suspension geometry actually worth tuning.

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

This kit is specified for the Audi A3 8V, chassis code AU12-3, covering the 2012 to 2020 model years fitted with the multi-link rear suspension (the drivetrain configuration that uses the independent rear axle rather than the torsion-beam layout). Strut body diameter is Φ50. Confirm your specific A3 8V uses the multi-link rear before ordering, as the torsion-beam cars in the same year range take a different kit.

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Spec your Street Advanced kit for the 2012-2020 A3 8V and configure yours below.