XYZ Racing Gravel Rally Coilovers — Audi A3 SPORTBACK 8V φ55 (Rear Multi-Link Suspension) Modified Rear Integrated (CancellationKit for Electronic Damping) 2012-2020

The 8V A3 Sportback’s multi-link rear axle – a layout Audi reserved for quattro-equipped cars rather than the torsion-beam FWD range – already gives this hatch more sophisticated wheel control than most in its class. On loose surfaces that geometry is wasted if the dampers underneath it are still tuned for a smooth commute rather than repeated compression cycles over ruts, washboard and camber changes. The XYZ Racing Gravel Rally coilover replaces the standard-fit units end to end, built around the demands of gravel-stage and rallycross competition rather than tarmac lapping.

Where a track-focused coilover chases low-speed body control for smooth circuit surfaces, this kit is built to survive sustained high-speed impacts without the shock fading or the chassis losing composure mid-stage. For A3s originally fitted with Audi’s electronically adjustable dampers, the kit is supplied with a rear cancellation setup so the fixed-rate rally dampers can go in without the car’s electronics flagging a fault for the missing adaptive units.

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

Swap in the Gravel Rally coilover and the A3 Sportback stops transmitting every stone and rut straight into the chassis – the inverted tube design and long-stroke, long-spring combination is there specifically to soak up that vibration before it reaches the body. That extra stroke length matters on quattro cars because the multi-link rear has more travel to give than a torsion beam, and this kit is built to use it rather than top out over compressions. Turn-in on loose gravel stays predictable because the spring and damper combination is set up to bear extreme cornering loads without the rear stepping out unexpectedly. The result on your 2012-2020 Audi A3 is a car that keeps its line over broken, high-speed gravel rather than skating across the surface.

About the Gravel Rally coilover

This is a damper built specifically for rally and rallycross use, where XYZ Racing treats gravel-stage surfaces as the most punishing road condition any of its coilover ranges has to handle. The inverted tube construction was chosen to cope with the different faces gravel competition throws up – sandstone, snow, silt – without the shock losing consistency between one stage and the next. Stroke length and spring length are both extended over a road or track-biased coilover, giving the damper room to absorb chassis vibration and take repeated hits from bouncy, high-speed sections without bottoming out. Spring rate settings on this range aren’t a desk-based estimate – they’ve been set using data from an actual rally racing programme, which is why the kit is tuned to bear the extreme g-forces generated when a rally car is thrown into a corner at speed on a loose surface rather than a grippy one.

Fitment for the Audi A3 Sportback (2012-2020)

This kit is built for the 8V-generation Audi A3 Sportback (chassis code AU12-8-C) across the 2012 to 2020 production run, specifically the φ55 rear multi-link suspension layout. The Modified Rr Integrated spec includes the cancellation kit needed where the car left the factory with electronic damping control, allowing the fixed-rate rally dampers to be fitted at the rear without triggering the original electronic suspension’s fault warnings.

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Spec is fixed to the AU12-8-C, φ55, multi-link rear platform – configure yours below to lock in the Modified Rr Integrated and cancellation-kit options your car needs.