XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Audi A5 B8 COUPE 4WD 2007-2016

The B8 A5 Coupe carries more of its mass over the front axle than a two-wheel-drive coupe ever will, and quattro drivetrain hardware only adds to that load. On a closed tarmac stage, where the surface can go from smooth asphalt to a patched, cambered village road in the space of a corner, that front-heavy weight distribution is exactly what unsettles a car under quick direction changes. XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally coilover kit is built around that problem rather than around a generic ride-height drop.

This is a stage kit, not a fast-road compromise. Damping and spring rates are set up for a car that needs to stay planted through mid-corner bumps and crests at speed, repeatedly, without the front end going light or the rear stepping out of line on the exit.

What this coilover does for your 2007-2016 Audi A5

Fitted to a 2007-2016 A5 quattro coupe, the kit keeps the chassis composed when a stage surface throws up broken tarmac, ridges, or a sudden compression – the kind of imperfection that unsettles a standard suspension setup mid-corner. Instead of the body pitching and unloading the outside front tyre, the damper controls that movement so the tyre keeps working the road. That matters specifically on quattro cars, where an unloaded front tyre costs you the traction advantage the drivetrain is supposed to give you. The result on this car is a front end that stays loaded through crests and compressions rather than skipping, and a rear axle that follows the front instead of arriving late.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is built specifically around sealed-stage rally driving, where the road surface is asphalt but rarely smooth – patched, cambered, and broken in ways a circuit surface isn’t. The damper is tuned to absorb the impact of that uneven surface and to soak up harder hits from bigger compressions without transmitting the shock straight into the body. Controlling that body movement is the point: keep the chassis settled and the tyre’s contact patch stays loaded, which is where the traction actually comes from. XYZ Racing sets the spring and damping specification from its own tarmac rally programme rather than a bench-test guess, so the behaviour on a stage is the behaviour the kit was built to produce, not an approximation of it.

Fitment for the Audi A5 B8 Coupe 4WD (2007-2016)

This kit is specified for the Audi A5 B8 Coupe with quattro all-wheel drive across the 2007-2016 production run. It’s a full coilover set – front and rear – matched to the B8 platform’s multi-link geometry, not a generic strut-only kit adapted to fit.

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Spring rates and damping are set per corner rather than as a single generic tune – configure yours below to match how the car will actually be driven.