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

The Audi A3 8V’s rear multi-link axle – fitted to the Φ55 rear-suspension cars covered by this kit, rather than the torsion-beam versions that share the same shell – gives each rear wheel more independent camber control than a beam axle ever could. That matters the instant a stage stops being smooth tarmac and turns into a cambered, cracked, mid-corner rut fest. XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally coilover is built around that exact scenario: absorb the hit, keep the axle working, don’t let the car skip off-line.

This is a sealed-stage tarmac rally spec, not a circuit-day setup. The damping is calibrated for the sharp, unpredictable inputs of a special stage – potholes, crests, sudden camber changes – rather than the smooth, repeatable loads of a race track. On a 2012-2020 Audi A3 running the multi-link rear, that distinction is the whole point of the kit.

What this coilover does for your 2012-2020 Audi A3

Fitted to the A3, this damper is built to soak up the impact of broken and uneven road surfaces rather than passing it straight into the shell. Over the big compressions a stage throws up – a crest landing, a pothole taken flat – it suppresses the body movement that would otherwise unsettle the car mid-corner, keeping the tyre’s contact patch loaded instead of skipping. That translates into more usable traction exactly when you need it: turn-in on a broken surface, exit traction out of a hairpin cut by a rut, stability through a fast section where the road camber won’t stay consistent. On the multi-link rear specifically, the benefit compounds – each wheel can keep tracking the road independently instead of the axle reacting as one unit.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

XYZ Racing developed the Tarmac Rally line specifically for sealed-stage rally use, where the surface is technically tarmac but rarely behaves like it. The damper is set up to absorb impact from uneven pavement and to soak up the jolt of a hard hit across a big bump without unsettling the car’s body control – the goal is to keep the chassis composed rather than letting a single sharp input upset the whole platform. That composure is what keeps the tyre loaded and gripping through the rest of the corner instead of skating across the surface. The settings baked into this kit come directly from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally programme, not a generic fast-road tune adapted after the fact – it’s a damper built from stage experience for stage use, applied here to the A3 8V’s specific rear geometry.

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

This kit is built for the Audi A3 8V, chassis code AU12-4, across the 2012-2020 production run – specifically the variants running the Φ55 rear multi-link suspension rather than the torsion-beam rear fitted to lower-spec cars on the same platform. Confirm your car uses the multi-link rear before ordering, as the geometry and mounting points differ from the beam-axle A3.

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Built for stages, not showrooms – configure your Tarmac Rally spec for the A3 8V below.