XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Audi A3 SPORTBACK 8V Φ55 (Rear Multi-Link Suspension) 2012-2020

The A3 Sportback 8V’s multi-link rear axle is the reason this particular Φ55 spec is worth chasing over the torsion-beam cars lower down the range: each rear wheel gets its own independent geometry to control, rather than a beam trying to compromise across both sides at once. That independence is wasted on a soft factory damper tune built for ride comfort over B-road potholes. XYZ Racing’s Super Sport coilovers give the multi-link rear something worth having – a damper that can actually use the geometry instead of fighting it.

This kit is built for the owner splitting time between a fast A-road run and the odd track day, not a car living permanently on slicks. Independent front and rear ride height adjustment lets you correct the factory’s slightly nose-up stance and drop the whole car evenly, while 36-way damping adjustment means you can soften things off for the motorway commute into work and firm them back up before a Sunday morning drive.

What this coilover does for your 2012-2020 Audi A3 Sportback 8V Φ55 (Rr Multi-link Suspension)

Drop the ride height and the A3 Sportback’s centre of gravity comes down with it, cutting the body roll that the factory setup allows through fast direction changes. The 36-way damping range means you’re not locked into one compromise: wind it towards the firm end for a track session where you want less pitch under braking into a corner, then back it off for the drive home. Because the front and rear ride height adjust independently of the damper, you can tune the car’s front-to-rear balance rather than just lowering it and hoping the factory weight distribution still makes sense at the new height. Owners running this on the 8V’s multi-link rear also get more consistent camber and toe behaviour through compression than the torsion-beam cars can offer, which matters once you start loading the rear axle hard on a circuit. The result on the road is a car that turns in with less delay and holds its line through a fast sweeper without the vagueness the standard dampers introduce once they’re worked hard.

About the Super Sport coilover

Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s fast-road-and-track damper, built around a monotube design with 36 discrete damping positions rather than a handful of preset stages, so you can find a setting between "comfortable" and "track-firm" instead of picking one or the other. Ride height is adjustable independently front and rear, which is what makes the stance and balance corrections above possible rather than just theoretical. The damper’s valving was developed specifically to remove the harshness that a lowered car usually picks up over rough tarmac and expansion joints, so dropping the A3 doesn’t have to mean living with a jarring ride every time you’re not on a smooth circuit. It’s built to be equally at home doing the daily commute as it is doing a track day, which is the point of the Super Sport tier sitting between XYZ’s fast-road and full competition ranges. Expect a noticeably more controlled body than the factory suspension, without needing to strip trim and interior to fit it.

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

This kit is built specifically for the Audi A3 Sportback 8V generation fitted with the multi-link rear axle (Φ55 spec), covering model years 2012 to 2020. It is not the correct kit for 8V cars specified with the torsion-beam rear – check which rear axle your specific A3 Sportback carries before ordering, as the two use different rear coilover geometry.

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This is the multi-link-specific Super Sport kit for the A3 Sportback 8V – configure yours below.