XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Audi A5 F5 SPORTBACK 2WD/4WD φ53 (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2016-2026

The A5 F5 Sportback left the factory with electronically controlled dampers tied into Audi Drive Select, which is fine for switching between comfort and dynamic modes on the motorway but leaves you stuck with Audi’s own damping curves the moment you want something firmer for a b-road or a trackday. Fitting manually adjustable coilovers to a car built around that electronic system usually means warning lights and fault codes on the dash – which is exactly what the cancellation kit built into this XYZ Racing Street Advanced setup is there to solve.

This is the Street Advanced coilover kit for the Audi A5 F5 Sportback, built to work across both the 2WD and quattro-equipped 4WD versions of the car, and specced for cars running the φ53 strut. It replaces the OE electronic damping hardware with a fully mechanical, independently adjustable setup suited to fast road driving with the option of an occasional track day, rather than a car committed to one discipline.

What this coilover does for your 2016-2026 Audi A5 F5 Sportback

With the electronic damper control cancelled out, the A5 F5 stops taking its damping cues from Audi’s software and starts taking them from you. The 720-way damping adjustment gives enough range to run the car soft for the commute, then wind in support for a fast b-road or a circuit session, without swapping parts. On the 4WD quattro cars, that extra body control matters – a five-door liftback with drive to all four corners still has real weight to manage through direction changes, and a coilover that holds its line under load makes the car feel smaller than it is. On the 2WD variant the same adjustability lets you trade ride height for a lower centre of gravity without the car crashing over broken tarmac. Height adjustment also corrects the stance changes that come from years of sagging factory dampers, so the car sits level again rather than just lower.

About the Street Advanced coilover

Street Advanced sits as XYZ Racing’s most widely fitted coilover line, developed over years by the brand’s in-house engineering team and refined using feedback drawn from the international racing programmes XYZ has supplied. It’s aimed at drivers who use their car on the road day to day but don’t want to leave performance on the table when a track day comes up. Central to that is the 720-way damping adjustment, which gives a far finer window of control than a basic multi-stage damper and lets an owner sit between comfortable and committed rather than jumping between the two. Construction is matched to each specific fitment rather than sold as one generic kit, which is why this version carries its own part number for the A5 F5’s φ53 strut and comes with the cancellation kit needed to run it on a car built around electronic dampers. It’s everyday equipment for an owner who wants real control over how the car behaves.

Fitment for the Audi A5 F5 Sportback (2016-2026)

This kit is built for the Audi A5 F5 Sportback, chassis code AU57-C, across the 2016-2026 model run, and covers both 2WD and 4WD quattro drivetrain variants on the φ53 strut. It’s the Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping version, specifically for A5 F5 Sportbacks that left the factory with Audi’s adaptive electronic dampers fitted.

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Spec is matched to the A5 F5’s own hardware rather than adapted from another Audi platform, so pick your finish and configure yours below.