XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Audi S1 SPORTBACK 8X (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2014-2018

The 8X-generation Audi S1 is the only A1 Audi ever sold with quattro and a proper multi-link rear axle, and that hardware deserves better than the fixed compromise it left Ingolstadt with. The XYZ Racing Street Advanced coilover for the Audi S1 Sportback 8X replaces the factory dampers outright, and the supplied electronic damping cancellation kit keeps the dash quiet once the OEM adaptive struts come out.

Street Advanced sits at the road-and-track-day end of the XYZ Racing range: 720-way damping adjustment, ride height you set yourself, and enough bandwidth to run a firm circuit setting on Sunday and wind it back for the Monday commute.

What this coilover does for your 2014-2018 Audi S1 Sportback 8X

Drop the S1’s ride height and you cut the tall, faintly top-heavy stance the standard car carries, which sharpens turn-in on a chassis whose short wheelbase already wants to rotate. The 720-way damping range lets you firm the front to manage the nose-heavy weight of the transverse 2.0 TFSI and its Haldex quattro hardware, then add rebound control at the rear to settle that multi-link axle mid-corner. On a quick B-road you feel flatter body control through fast direction changes; on track the platform stops floating over kerbs and crests. Soften the settings again and the car stays civil enough for daily use, which is the whole point of this series.

About the Street Advanced coilover

Street Advanced is the most established product in the XYZ Racing line, refined over several years by the company’s engineering team and validated in international competition before reaching production. It is built deliberately for dual duty: ordinary road driving one day, a track day the next. The headline figure is 720 distinct damping settings, adjusted by hand, which is what gives the kit its spread from comfortable to genuinely firm. Height adjustment is independent of the damper tune, so you can set stance and corner balance without losing your damping. For an S1 owner who wants real control over how the car rides, rather than the factory adaptive setup’s preset compromise, this is the functional core of the range.

Fitment for the Audi S1 Sportback 8X (2014-2018)

This kit is specified for the 8X-platform Audi S1 Sportback, 2014 to 2018, chassis reference AU43-C. It is the cancellation-kit variant, supplied with the electronic damping control delete so cars originally fitted with Audi’s adaptive dampers do not log a suspension fault once the OEM units are removed. Confirm your car left the factory with electronic damping before ordering this specific version.

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Set your ride height, choose your damping rate and order the exact Street Advanced specification for your S1 – configure yours below.