XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Audi RS3 SEDAN 8V φ55 2013-2020

The RS3 Sedan’s 2.5-litre five and Quattro drivetrain load the 8V platform’s front end hard the moment you’re on the power out of a bend, and the factory suspension was tuned around comfort and a fairly high kerb weight, not a driver hunting for front-end bite. XYZ Racing’s Super Sport coilover kit is built for exactly that gap: fast-road cars that see the odd weekend track day, where the owner wants sharper turn-in and body control without turning the car into something you dread on a pockmarked B-road.

This is a full coilover kit, not a spring-only lowering job, so ride height and damping are both adjustable independently once it’s fitted to your RS3.

What this coilover does for your 2013-2020 Audi RS3 Sedan

Drop the ride height and firm up the damping and the RS3’s nose stops diving under braking into a corner, which matters on a car this heavy with this much weight over the front axle. The 36-way damping adjustment lets you run the front end stiffer than standard for track sessions, then wind it back off for the drive home without a tool kit’s worth of faff. Because ride height and damping are separate adjustments, you can drop the car for a lower centre of gravity and keep the compliance you need to still use it daily. Sharper damper control also means less of the RS3’s mass shifting rearward under throttle out of slow corners, which is where a lot of that Quattro traction actually gets wasted on the standard setup. The net result on this chassis specifically: a car that changes direction with less roll and holds a line under power instead of squatting and pushing wide.

About the Super Sport coilover

XYZ Racing built the Super Sport line around removing the harshness that usually comes with lowering a car this heavy, so bumps and rough surfaces don’t translate straight into the cabin the way they do with a basic spring-and-shock swap. The 36-way damping adjustment is the headline spec: enough range to move from a compliant road setting to something firmer for a track session, and back again, without swapping components. Ride height is independently adjustable too, so you’re not locked into whatever drop the springs happen to give you. XYZ pitches this damper as suitable for both weekend competition use and everyday driving, which is the brief for an RS3 that’s someone’s only car as much as it’s their track-day toy. It’s built to let one set of dampers cover a wider spread of road conditions than a fixed-rate setup can manage.

Fitment for the Audi RS3 Sedan (2013-2020)

This kit is built specifically for the 8V-chassis RS3 Sedan, chassis code AU62, covering the 2013 to 2020 model years – the full run of the 8V-generation saloon. Confirm your car matches this chassis and year range before ordering, as fitment is specific to this generation of RS3 Sedan.

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Spec your ride height and damping range for this RS3 Sedan below, and build yours to suit how much of its life is spent on track versus the daily commute.