XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Audi A3 8V Φ55 (Rear Multi-Link Suspension) Modified Rear Integrated 2012-2020

The 8V A3 built with the multi-link rear axle is a different car from the torsion-beam versions further down the range – the extra rear geometry control means the axle can be worked, not just damped, and that matters the moment a stage throws a compression at an angle. Tarmac rally surfaces rarely offer a clean, flat load; ridges, camber changes and patched tarmac all arrive through that rear axle in quick succession, and a rear end that’s under-damped for the job will step out rather than settle.

The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover for this Audi A3 8V (AU12-6, 2012-2020) is built around that reality. It’s a stage-use damper, not a fast-road comfort set-up, and it’s specced for the Modified Rr Integrated rear mount this particular multi-link fitment requires.

What this coilover does for your 2012-2020 Audi A3

Over broken tarmac and mid-corner ridges, the damping keeps the tyre loaded into the road surface instead of letting the rear multi-link kick sideways, so traction survives the transition rather than spiking and dropping. Big compressions – kerb strikes, stage-edge lips, patched sections – get absorbed at the damper rather than punching straight through to the chassis, which keeps the body settled and the driver’s read of the car consistent from one corner to the next. On an A3 running the multi-link rear, that translates into a rear axle you can trust to hold its line under trail-braking into a tightening stage corner, rather than one that’s guessing at grip.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally coilover is built specifically to cope with the sustained abuse of closed-road stage work: repeated big hits, uneven surfaces and kerbing that a fast-road set-up isn’t asked to survive. The damper is tuned to soak up impact from rough pavement and larger bumps without transmitting that shock straight into the body, so the car stays composed rather than getting knocked off line. That control is also what keeps the tyre pressed into the tarmac through compressions, so grip stays available exactly when a stage driver needs it. The valving in this kit comes directly from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally programme, rather than being adapted from a circuit or fast-road base spec.

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

This kit is built for the 8V-chassis Audi A3 (AU12-6) sold between 2012 and 2020, specifically the variant fitted with the rear multi-link suspension rather than the torsion-beam rear axle, and it uses the Modified Rr Integrated rear mount that fitment calls for. Confirm your car has the multi-link rear before ordering, as the front-wheel-drive torsion-beam A3 of the same era uses a different rear-end architecture entirely.

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Built specifically around this A3’s multi-link rear end and stage-derived valving, this is a kit for drivers heading onto closed tarmac roads, not a comfort upgrade – configure yours below.