XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Audi A4 B5 4WD 1995-2001

The B5 A4 quattro’s permanent four-wheel-drive system puts drivetrain weight over the front axle, and on a fast asphalt special stage that mass transfers hard into the front dampers under braking and through quick direction changes. XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally coilover kit for the Audi A4 B5 4WD (1995-2001) is set up around that load pattern rather than around road comfort. It keeps the chassis flat and the tyres loaded through crests, compressions and off-camber tarmac sections where a soft factory setup would pitch and wallow.

This is a sealed-stage tarmac rally application: repeated hard hits, big elevation changes, and surfaces that vary from smooth new asphalt to broken farm-track tarmac within the same stage. The kit is tuned to absorb that punishment without the damper losing control of the wheel, so the quattro system’s traction advantage actually reaches the road instead of being wasted at the tyre.

What this coilover does for your 1995-2001 Audi A4 B5 4WD

Fit this kit to a B5 A4 4WD and the first change you’ll feel is less nose dive under braking into a hairpin – with the drivetrain’s extra weight already loading the front end, controlling that dive matters more on this chassis than on a lighter front-driver. Through fast direction changes the coilovers keep the outside front tyre pressed into the tarmac rather than letting it unload over a compression, which is exactly where quattro’s grip advantage is either used or thrown away. Rougher stage sections that would send a stock A4 skipping sideways get absorbed instead of being transmitted straight into the chassis, so the car stays pointed where you steered it. The net effect on the B5’s nose-heavy layout is a front end that turns in and holds its line under load rather than pushing wide.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally coilover is XYZ Racing’s damper for sealed-surface competition, built to soak up the impact of an uneven road surface rather than fight it. Where a big compression would normally send a jolt straight through the body, this damper is tuned to absorb it and keep the tyre’s contact patch working, which is what keeps traction consistent from one stage note to the next. The result is a chassis that stays settled and predictable through hard direction changes instead of skating over broken tarmac. XYZ Racing has carried its Tarmac Rally damping settings over from its own stage rally programme, so the valving in this kit reflects what the team has learned running these events rather than a generic road-going tune.

Fitment for the Audi A4 B5 (1995-2001)

This kit is built specifically for the Audi A4 B5 in 4WD quattro form (chassis code AU14), covering the 1995 to 2001 production run. Confirm your car is the quattro-equipped B5 A4 before ordering, since front-wheel-drive B5 variants use a different mounting and geometry setup.

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Spec is set around the B5’s 4WD weight distribution and the demands of a tarmac stage, not a general road tune – pick your Tarmac Rally coilover configuration for the Audi A4 B5 below.