XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Audi R8 4WD (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2007-2014

The Audi R8 4WD’s factory Magnetic Ride is one of those OEM systems that’s brilliant when it works and ruinously expensive when it doesn’t. Once a magnetorheological damper starts weeping, the bill from Ingolstadt prompts most owners to look elsewhere – and that’s where this kit lives. The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover for the 2007-2014 R8 (AU44-C) replaces the entire electronic damping setup with a fully mechanical, height-and-damping-adjustable system, and the cancellation module keeps the dash quiet about it.

This is the Super Sport spec, which means fast-road bias with enough range to handle the occasional weekend at Donington or Cadwell. For a mid-engined V8 or V10 supercar with quattro driving all four corners, that’s the right brief – the R8 was always more usable than a 911 GT3, and a coilover that ruins daily compliance to chase tenths would miss the point of the car.

What this coilover does for your 2007-2014 Audi R8 4WD (cancellation Kit For Electronic Damping)

The R8’s mid-engined layout is rear-biased but the quattro front diff still puts meaningful weight over the nose under braking, and the standard Magnetic Ride – when healthy – was tuned conservatively for owners who’d never see a circuit. Swapping to the Super Sport gives you 36-way damping adjustment per corner, so you can soften the rebound for a long motorway run to Spa and firm it up once you’re through the gates. Ride height adjustment lets you drop the front to close that arch gap without resorting to lowering springs and worn-out OE struts. Turn-in sharpens noticeably as you remove the slight float that ageing magnetic dampers develop, and on initial brake application the nose stays flatter, which makes trail-braking into the Audi’s understeer-biased chassis far more predictable. The cancellation kit means no permanent Magnetic Ride fault light on the cluster – a small detail, but the difference between a tidy install and a car that nags you every start-up.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s fast-road and weekend-track damper, built around a 36-way adjuster that controls combined bump and rebound from a single knob at the top of each strut. Construction is the same monotube architecture used across the XYZ range, with the damping force engineered specifically to absorb broken UK tarmac rather than fight it – vendor notes describe it as eliminating the discomfort that comes from bumps and rough roads, which matches what owners report on B-road testing. Ride height adjusts independently of preload via the lower mount, so you can drop the car without pre-loading the spring and losing useful suspension travel. The 36-way range is broad enough to span genuinely supple daily-driver settings at one end and firm circuit settings at the other, which is the whole reason this damper exists as a separate model to the track-focused Top Sport.

Fitment for the Audi R8 4WD (cancellation Kit For Electronic Damping) (2007-2014)

This kit is fitted for the AU44-C chassis – 2007 through to 2014 production R8 4WD cars equipped from the factory with Magnetic Ride electronic damping. The included cancellation module is the critical piece: without it, deleting the magnetic dampers throws a permanent suspension warning. Confirm your car has the electronic damping option before ordering – non-magnetic R8s use a different kit.

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Pick your spring rates and ride height preference below and build the kit to your R8’s brief.