XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Audi S3 SPORTBACK 8V φ55 (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2013-2020

The 8V S3 Sportback carries its EA888 lump and Haldex hardware nose-first into every corner, and the factory adaptive dampers were tuned around that weight bias rather than against it. Cancelling the electronic damping control and replacing it with a fixed-rate Super Sport kit takes the guesswork out of that equation: the ride quality the ECU used to negotiate is now something you set yourself, on a car whose factory setup was always a compromise between comfort and the front axle’s appetite for load.

This Super Sport kit is built for fast-road driving with regular track days folded in, not a car that lives on race tyres. It replaces the OE electronic dampers outright, so the cancellation kit isn’t an add-on – it’s the part that makes running a non-adaptive coilover on this chassis possible without warning lights or degraded modes.

What this coilover does for your 2013-2020 Audi S3 Sportback

Losing the adaptive damper solenoids means losing their inconsistency too – no more mode-switching lag between comfort and dynamic settings, just one damping curve you’ve chosen and left alone. The 36-way adjustment on this Super Sport kit gives you the range to soften things for the motorway run to the track and firm them up once you’re there, which matters on an 8V that transfers load onto the front tyres hard under braking and off the line. Independent ride height adjustment lets you correct the nose-down stance the standard suspension carries and get the corner weights closer to level, useful given how much of this car’s mass sits over the front axle. Because the kit is a direct physical and electrical replacement for the factory dampers, there’s no dash warning or suspension-fault message to work around once it’s fitted – the car simply runs the new hardware as if it left the factory that way.

About the Super Sport coilover

Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s fast-road-biased damper, built to take the harshness out of rough tarmac while still giving you a firm platform when you need one. The 36-way damping adjustment covers a wide spread of settings, so the same kit can be run soft for a daily commute over broken B-roads or wound up for a track session without swapping parts. Ride height is independently adjustable front and rear, letting you set stance and corner balance separately from spring preload. XYZ pitches this damper for cars that see both weekend racing and daily use, which is the design brief this fitment is built to – a kit that doesn’t force a choice between comfort and control.

Fitment for the Audi S3 Sportback (2013-2020)

This kit is built for the 8V-generation S3 Sportback, chassis code AU51-C, covering the 2013 to 2020 model years fitted with electronic damping control from the factory. The cancellation kit variant is specifically for cars ordered with adaptive dampers, replacing the OE electronic units and their control signal so the Super Sport dampers run as a standalone fixed system.

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