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

The Audi R8 4WD was sold with Magnetic Ride – clever in showroom trim, a closed door for anyone serious about a fixed rally setup. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover for the Audi R8 4WD (2007-2014) sidesteps that problem entirely: it ships with the cancellation kit needed to retire the factory electronic damping and replace it with a mechanically adjustable damper built around sealed-stage tarmac rally settings.

This is the spec for owners who want their R8 to behave the same way on the second pass through a sequence of fast tarmac bends as it did on the first. Magnetic Ride was tuned around road comfort and a streetable supercar brief; the Tarmac Rally damper is tuned around tyre temperature, repeatable platform behaviour, and the kind of mid-corner kerb strike that would have the standard system second-guessing itself.

What this coilover does for your 2007-2014 Audi R8

With the cancellation kit handling the ECU side, the chassis stops fighting itself: no more software-led damping changes mid-corner, no warning lights, just a fixed valving curve you can actually learn. The damper is built to absorb sharp impacts from broken tarmac and ripple strips without unloading the contact patch, so the mid-engined R8’s rear traction stays planted under power-down out of slow corners. On the front axle, the result is a more honest, less filtered response to steering input – the nose loads predictably under trail-braking instead of riding on a software interpretation of the surface. Suppressing body shock the way the vendor describes also keeps the tyre working in its temperature window stage after stage, which matters far more than peak grip on any single corner.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is XYZ Racing’s sealed-stage tarmac specification, with valving derived directly from their tarmac rally racing programme. The brief is narrow and clearly stated: absorb the jolt of a big bump, suppress body shock as the chassis settles, and put the tyre back on the road as quickly as possible to maintain traction. Where a track-focused coilover assumes a smooth, scrubbed surface, this one assumes the opposite – a closed road with camber changes, mid-corner ripples, and the occasional kerb that was never meant to be driven over. For the R8 specifically, the kit is supplied with the electronic damping cancellation module so the car runs cleanly without the original Magnetic Ride hardware in the loop.

Fitment for the Audi R8 (2007-2014)

This kit is built for the Mk1 Audi R8 4WD (chassis code AU44-C), 2007 through 2014, and specifically for cars originally equipped with Magnetic Ride – hence the included cancellation kit for the electronic damping. Owners with the passive (non-magnetic) base suspension should confirm spec before ordering.

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