XYZ Racing Drag Racing Coilovers — Audi A4 B8 SEDAN 4WD (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2008-2016

The B8 A4 carries its longitudinal engine ahead of the front axle, so weight sits over the nose and the quattro driveline has to claw for grip the instant you drop the clutch. The XYZ Racing Drag Racing coilover for the Audi A4 B8 Sedan 4WD is built for the 0-400 metre run, where how the chassis loads its tyres in the first few feet decides the whole pass rather than how it behaves through a corner.

This is the cancellation-kit version, which deletes the factory electronic damping control so the suspension runs cleanly on cars originally optioned with adaptive dampers, without throwing fault codes. The Drag Racing series has a narrow, single-minded brief: manage weight transfer on launch and keep a 4WD platform that already hooks up well planted all the way down the strip.

What this coilover kit does for your 2008-2016 Audi A4 B8 Sedan 4WD

On a hard launch you feel the rear squat and the front unload in a controlled way, the kit pushing load toward the driven wheels so the tyres bite instead of lighting up. Because the damping is tuned to force greater compression into the loaded contact patch, the idle spin off the line drops and the A4 picks up drive sooner. Through the higher-speed end of the run the same settings keep the car settled and stable rather than floating over surface changes. And on an electronically damped B8, the cancellation kit means you gain all of this without a warning light on the dash.

About the Drag Racing coilover

The Drag Racing coilover is engineered specifically for the 0-400 metre standing start, and the same design philosophy is offered across front, rear and four-wheel-drive layouts. Its damping is set to shift weight balance front to rear in response to which wheels are putting the power down, loading the driven tyres harder at the moment of launch. By forcing more compression into those tyres it cuts the dead time where a wheel spins instead of driving the car forward, which on a traction-rich quattro A4 translates directly into a cleaner sixty-foot. The settings then hold the car stable as terminal speed climbs. The cancellation kit included here removes the electronic damping signal the factory adaptive system expects, letting the manually built coilover operate as intended.

Fitment for the Audi A4 B8 Sedan 4WD (2008-2016)

This kit is matched to the B8-generation Audi A4 Sedan in 4WD quattro form, chassis code AU22-C, covering the 2008 to 2016 model years. It is the cancellation-kit specification, intended for cars fitted from the factory with electronic adaptive damping that needs to be bypassed.

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Pick your spring and damping spec for the B8 A4 in the configurator below and build the kit to suit your launch setup.