XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Audi A3 SPORTBACK 8V Φ50 (Rear Twist- beam Suspension) (Cancellation Kit for ElectronicDamping) 2012-2020

The A3 8V Sportback’s twist-beam rear axle is a simpler, semi-independent layout than the multi-link fitted to quattro cars, and it rewards a coilover that controls roll rather than fighting the beam’s own geometry. Where the car left the factory with electronic adaptive damping, this kit’s cancellation harness lets the XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover take over ride control cleanly, with no suspension fault codes lit up on the dash afterwards.

Built for sealed-stage tarmac rally work, this Φ50-body coilover is set up to shrug off the compressions a road-biased kit would baulk at – crests, ridges, mid-corner ruts – while keeping the tyre loaded through them rather than skipping across the surface.

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

On an A3 8V running the twist-beam rear, ride quality translates directly into how confidently you can trail-brake into a hairpin without unsettling the back axle. The 50 mm-diameter (Φ50) damper body gives the internals room to work through big compressions without spiking, so a fast crest-into-dip sequence doesn’t pitch the car into the next corner unsettled. Because this fitment includes the cancellation kit for the car’s electronic damping, you get one consistent damping character front to rear instead of the factory system trying to reassert its own logic mid-stage. The result is a front-driven Sportback that puts drive down through tighter, more repeatable weight transfer rather than wallowing into it, on both a rough B-road and a closed stage.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

XYZ Racing built the Tarmac Rally line for surfaces that throw up cambers, ridges and mid-stage bumps as often as they offer clean tarmac. The damping is tuned to soak up sharp-edged hits and big compressions without transmitting the impact straight into the body, which keeps the tyre loaded and in contact instead of skipping over the surface. That control is drawn from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally programme, and the road-going kit carries the same damping philosophy rather than a softened-down version of it. Vehicle stability is the point of the whole set-up: a chassis that settles quickly after a hit gives you handling you can actually read corner to corner. For the A3 8V Sportback, that means a coilover that treats a rough road the same way it treats a stage – absorb the hit, keep the contact patch loaded, and let you carry speed through what follows instead of backing off for it.

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

This kit is built for the Audi A3 Sportback 8V produced between 2012 and 2020 with the twist-beam rear suspension layout, and it includes the cancellation kit needed to run passive damping on cars originally fitted with electronic adaptive dampers. Confirm your car uses the twist-beam rear rather than the multi-link fitted to quattro variants before ordering, since the two rear axles are not interchangeable on this kit.

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