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

The A3 8V’s twist-beam rear axle keeps the platform simple and predictable, but it’s also less forgiving of mismatched spring rates than the multi-link cars further up the range – get the damping wrong back there and the axle either skips over broken tarmac or wallows through direction changes. XYZ Racing’s Super Sport coilover kit for the Audi A3 8V (2012-2020) is built around that reality: a fast-road and weekend-track set-up with 36 stages of damping adjustment and full ride height control, specced for cars that left the factory with electronic damping fitted.

Because this fitment carries the cancellation kit for electronic damping, the Super Sport kit isn’t just a spring-and-damper swap – it replaces the factory adaptive dampers outright and wires the electronics out of the loop, so the dash stays clean once the mechanical dampers go in. That makes it the straightforward route back to a fully adjustable coilover set-up on A3 8V models that originally came with the electronic system.

What this coilover does for your 2012-2020 Audi A3 8V

With the cancellation kit in place, the fault codes an electronic-damping car would normally throw once its adaptive dampers are removed are eliminated, so the Super Sport kit’s mechanical adjusters become the only damping control you need. The 36-way adjustment lets you set a firmer front for turn-in bite against a rear tune that respects the twist-beam’s more limited wheel travel, rather than running one compromise setting front and rear. Ride height is independently adjustable at each corner, so you can drop the A3 for a lower centre of gravity on track weekends and wind it back up for the commute without swapping parts. On a twist-beam rear, spring and damper matching carries more of the handling work than it would on a multi-link car, and this kit is calibrated for that axle specifically rather than adapted from a multi-link tune. On the road that shows up as sharper turn-in and less body roll through direction changes, with the rear staying settled over the mid-corner bumps that unsettle a standard A3.

About the Super Sport coilover

XYZ Racing’s Super Sport line was developed to remove the harshness that catches out a lot of aftermarket coilovers on rough British B-roads, without giving up the adjustment range a track day needs. Each damper carries 36 damping stages, wide enough to run a genuinely soft daily setting and a firm track setting from the same hardware rather than forcing one compromise. Ride height adjusts independently of the damping curve, so stance and corner weighting can be set without touching how the car rides. The construction is built for the mixed-use brief XYZ Racing designed it for – comfortable enough for daily driving, stiff enough to hold its composure through a weekend track session. For the A3 8V, that brief is exactly why the Super Sport sits above the entry-level range and below the full Circuit Master kit: enough adjustment range to soften the twist-beam’s rougher edges without needing a trailer to get the car there.

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

This kit is specced for Audi A3 8V models built between 2012 and 2020 fitted with the Φ50 twist-beam rear suspension and factory electronic damping – confirm your car runs the torsion-beam rear axle rather than the multi-link set-up fitted to other A3 8V variants before ordering, since the two use different kits. The included cancellation kit covers the electronic damping wiring specific to this fitment.

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Spec the Super Sport kit against your A3 8V’s exact rear axle and damping set-up, then configure yours below.