XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Audi A3 8V Φ55 (Rear Twist- beam Suspension) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2012-2020

The A3 8V’s torsion-beam rear end was never built with a blind crest and a stage-road ridge in mind, but that is exactly where this Tarmac Rally coilover earns its keep. A twist-beam axle moves as one unit, and on broken asphalt, cattle grids and gravel-fringed apron the damping has to react with the surface rather than fight it. XYZ Racing built this kit around that reality for the A3 8V, and because this generation of A3 left the factory with electronically controlled dampers, the cancellation kit is included so the OE adaptive damping and its control unit are taken out of the loop entirely.

What’s left is a fixed-rate mechanical coilover, which means the calibration lives in the spring and damper hardware rather than a software map that can be second-guessed by a dead sensor or a corrupted setting. For sealed-stage or targa-style tarmac events where the road surface can change from smooth blacktop to a gravel-strewn junction inside a few hundred metres, that mechanical predictability is the entire point.

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

Fit this kit to a 2012-2020 A3 8V and the twist-beam rear axle stops behaving like the compromise it was designed around. Damping is calibrated to soak up a pothole or a stage-road ridge rather than pass it straight into the body, which keeps the rear tyres loaded through the moment that matters instead of letting them skip over it. Ride height adjusts independently front and rear, so you can correct the nose-down stance that removing the electronic dampers often leaves and get the corner weights back where a stage-prepped A3 needs them. Through fast direction changes on tarmac, body control is tight enough that the chassis stays flat rather than rolling into the twist-beam’s usual arc.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

XYZ’s Tarmac Rally coilover was developed for sealed-stage and mixed-surface rally use, where the damper has to absorb sustained high-frequency inputs from broken asphalt as well as the occasional big hit over a crest or a cattle grid. The valving is set up to take that impact without the body slapping through to the shell, and to keep the tyre’s contact patch loaded so it keeps generating traction through the hit rather than skating over the top of it. That calibration is carried over directly from XYZ’s own tarmac rally outings rather than adapted from a circuit-only damper. Construction is monotube, which sheds heat faster than a twin-tube design over a long stage or a full day of testing, and stability through repeated compressions is the design brief rather than an afterthought. The cancellation kit bundled into this version strips out the factory’s electronic damping control, so the mechanical valving alone sets how the car rides.

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

This kit is built for the A3 8V, chassis code AU12-4-4-C, across the 2012 to 2020 production run, specifically the twist-beam rear suspension version of the car. Because this A3 8V left the factory with electronically adjustable dampers, the kit includes the cancellation hardware needed to remove that system before fitting the coilover, rather than attempting to run both in parallel.

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Spec on this kit is fixed to the twist-beam rear and electronic-damping-cancellation configuration of the A3 8V – pick your spring rate and configure yours below.