XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Audi A3 SPORTBACK 8Y φ50 (Rear Multi-Link Suspension) 2020-2026

The A3 Sportback 8Y’s multi-link rear axle is what separates it from the torsion-beam A3s that came before it – the rear wheels are individually located, which means how well that axle is controlled under compression decides whether the car stays flat through a stage or starts wandering under braking into a hairpin. On a closed tarmac rally stage, where crests, mid-corner dips and camber changes arrive with no warning and no run-off, a soft factory spring rate lets that rear end get out of shape exactly when you need it settled.

XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally coilover is built around that problem. It is a full coilover kit for the Audi A3 Sportback, developed specifically for sealed-stage tarmac rally use rather than for a fast-road ride, and it is engineered so the chassis stays composed when the surface underneath it is anything but smooth.

What this coilover does for your 2020-2026 Audi A3 Sportback

Installed on an A3 Sportback from this generation, the kit’s damping is set up to soak up the sharp edge of a pothole or a broken stage-tarmac joint without kicking the rear axle sideways, which keeps the tyre’s contact patch loaded and working rather than skipping across the surface. That matters most under trail-braking into a tightening bend, where a stage car needs the rear to stay planted while the front is still shedding speed – lose that and the A3’s multi-link rear will start to walk. Ride height is adjustable independently of spring preload, so the car can be set low enough to cut aerodynamic lift on faster stages without running out of suspension travel over a compression. The result on this specific chassis is a rear axle that stays located through the big hits instead of skating over them, which is what actually buys you traction out of a stage corner.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally coilover is XYZ Racing’s damper for exactly this discipline: a shock built to take a heavy, sudden impact – a pothole, a broken edge, a hidden dip mid-stage – and control the resulting body movement rather than transmitting it straight into the chassis. The valving is set up to work with, rather than against, sudden compression, so the impact is absorbed and the body doesn’t continue pitching or rolling after the event has already passed. That control is what keeps the tyre loaded onto the road surface instead of hopping, which is where the traction actually comes from. XYZ Racing states these settings come directly from its own Tarmac Rally programme, and the aim throughout is a chassis that stays stable and predictable stage after stage rather than one tuned purely for a smooth circuit surface.

Fitment for the Audi A3 Sportback (2020-2026)

This kit is built for chassis code AU12-9 – the Audi A3 Sportback 8Y with the multi-link rear suspension layout, 2020 to 2026. Confirm your car uses the multi-link rear axle rather than the torsion-beam setup fitted to lower-spec variants before ordering, as the two use different rear geometry and are not interchangeable on this kit.

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