XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Audi Q5 8R 4WD (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2008-2017

The 8R-generation Q5 carries its weight high and forward, and the factory’s electronic damping was tuned to mask that rather than work with it. Strip the magnetic ride out of the equation and you’re left with a quattro SUV that wants a real spring rate and a real damper to settle its body control – which is exactly the gap the XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover for the 2008-2017 Audi Q5 8R fills.

This kit is the fast-road and weekend track-use answer for owners who’ve either lost faith in the OE adaptive shocks or want a stance and handling brief the factory was never going to authorise. It ships with the cancellation harness needed to retire the electronic damping module cleanly, so the dash doesn’t light up the moment the new struts are bolted in.

What this coilover does for your 2008-2017 Audi Q5 8R 4WD

Drop the ride height into a sensible window and the Q5’s centre of gravity finally agrees with its quattro footprint – turn-in tightens, mid-corner roll calms down, and the nose stops washing wide on the kind of B-road camber that exposes a tall SUV. The 36-way damping adjustment is the lever you’ll actually use: wind the clicks softer for the motorway slog with the family in the back, then firm everything up on the morning of a track day without touching the spring perches. Body control under braking improves because the damper is doing the work the OE setup off-loaded to electronics, and the platform stays composed when you load the outside rear on a long, loaded corner. Tyre contact through mid-speed compressions becomes more honest, which is where the standard 8R can feel floaty.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s dual-purpose damper – built for owners who want a single coilover that handles a Monday commute and a Sunday session on circuit without swapping hardware in between. Ride height is fully adjustable at the strut, and the 36-way damping dial gives you a usable spread from comfort-biased to track-firm rather than two crude extremes. Bump absorption over broken tarmac was a design priority, so the kit doesn’t punish you on the cratered surfaces that make most lowered Q5s miserable. Damper internals are tuned to suit both weekend competition use and daily driving, which is the brief the Q5 8R chassis actually needs – a single setup that copes with school-run kerbs, motorway expansion joints, and the occasional flat-out lap. The included cancellation kit handles the electronic damping delete on this 4WD variant so the system integrates cleanly with the car’s CAN network.

Fitment for the Audi Q5 8R 4WD (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) (2008-2017)

This coilover is built specifically for the Audi Q5 8R 4WD chassis (chassis code AU45-C) covering the 2008 to 2017 model years, and is the variant that includes the cancellation kit required when replacing factory electronic damping. Confirm your car was originally specified with the adaptive damping option before ordering this version – if it ran standard passive dampers from the factory, the non-cancellation variant is the correct part.

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Pick your spring rate and damping spec for the Q5 8R below and build yours in the configurator.