XYZ Racing Drag Racing Coilovers — Audi A3 8V Φ55 (Rear Multi-Link Suspension) Modified Rear Integrated (Cancellation Kit forElectronic Damping) 2012-2020

Launch traction is the whole game with a multi-link-rear A3 8V, and it is the one thing a factory damper setup was never tuned to deliver. XYZ Racing’s Drag Racing coilover is built around that single problem: getting weight onto the driven wheels the instant the clutch or launch control lets go, and keeping it there through the run.

Because this fitment carries the cancellation kit for the A3’s electronic damping system, the kit also solves the wiring side of the swap – you get a fully passive, drag-tuned platform without fault codes fighting you every time you start the car. For an owner who has already sorted the drivetrain and just needs the chassis to stop wasting the launch, this is the missing piece.

What this coilover does for your 2012-2020 Audi A3 8V Φ55 (Rr Multi-Link Suspension) Modified Rr Integrated (Cancellation Kit forElectronic Damping)

Fitted to this A3, the kit lets you bias static weight toward the driven axle before you even stage the car, then holds that transfer under load rather than letting the multi-link rear squat and rebound unpredictably. The practical result is more contact patch doing useful work in the first metre of the run, and less wheelspin burning off boost or torque you have already paid for. Because the damping side is fully passive once the cancellation kit is in, there is no OEM control module trying to soften the response mid-launch – the chassis does what the coilover tells it to, run after run. Ride height also drops into a genuinely useful drag-launch window instead of the compromise stance a fast-road coilover would give you.

About the Drag Racing coilover

XYZ Racing’s Drag Racing coilover is purpose-designed around 0-400m drag work, and it is built to suit front-, rear- and four-wheel-drive cars rather than one drivetrain layout. The core idea is weight transfer: the valving and spring setup are configured so the car shifts load onto whichever wheels are doing the driving the instant power goes down, rather than in a slow, progressive squat. That instant weight shift forces more compression into the driven tyre’s contact patch, which cuts down how long the wheel spends spinning free before it hooks up. Less idle spin at launch means more of the engine’s output goes straight into forward motion, and the car settles into a more stable, repeatable attitude once it is moving at speed. On the A3 8V’s multi-link rear end, that translates into a coilover tuned for a single job – getting the car off the line hard – rather than a general-purpose fast-road compromise.

Fitment for the Audi A3 8V Φ55 (Rr Multi-Link Suspension) Modified Rr Integrated (Cancellation Kit forElectronic Damping) (2012-2020)

Built specifically for the A3 8V variant fitted with multi-link rear suspension and factory electronic damping, model years 2012 to 2020, chassis code AU12-6-C. The kit includes the cancellation components needed to run passive damping on cars that left the factory with electronically controlled dampers, so no separate module workaround is needed.

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Get the launch-day weight transfer and the electronic damping cancellation sorted in one kit – configure yours below.