XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Audi S3 SPORTBACK 8V φ55 (Modified Rear Integrated) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2013-2020

The S3 Sportback 8V carries its turbocharged EA888 lump ahead of the front axle, and that mass, married to the quattro system’s Haldex-driven rear bias, gives the standard suspension a soft, nose-led feel that shows up first under trail braking into a corner. XYZ Racing’s Street Advanced coilover replaces that factory setup – and on cars specced with Audi’s electronically controlled dampers, the included cancellation kit lets you fit conventional passive dampers without the dash throwing adaptive-suspension fault codes.

Street Advanced sits between comfort and outright circuit hardware: it’s built for owners who drive the S3 daily and want a firmer, more controlled platform for the odd track day, not a car that crashes over speed bumps on the way to work.

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

With 720 damping settings on tap you can wind the front end up firm enough to check the S3’s nose-dive on track-day braking zones, then back it off a dozen clicks for the daily commute without touching a spanner. Lowering the ride height tightens the wheel arch gap and drops the centre of gravity, which matters on a car this heavy over the front axle – it sharpens turn-in and cuts the delay before the quattro system’s rear bias comes on stream mid-corner. The cancellation kit means the electronic damping control unit sees a resistance value it accepts as normal, so you keep a clean dash and no limp-mode warnings after the swap. Firmer damping also reins in squat under hard quattro launches, keeping the S3 flatter and the front tyres loaded through the first few metres of acceleration.

About the Street Advanced coilover

Street Advanced is XYZ Racing’s highest-volume range, refined over years of in-house development and run through the brand’s motorsport programme before any of it reaches a road car. That racing feedback loop is where the 720-way damping adjustment comes from – enough granularity to separate a genuinely stiff track setting from a liveable daily one, rather than the handful of clicks you get on cheaper kits. The range sits deliberately between a full comfort-focused road kit and a stripped-out circuit-only setup: it’s built for drivers who use the car on the road most of the time but want the same platform to hold up on a track day without swapping springs first. Construction and adjustment range carry across the whole Street Advanced family; what changes fitment to fitment is the spring rate and mounting hardware matched to the specific chassis – in this case the modified rear-integrated mount pattern used on the 8V Sportback.

Fitment for the Audi S3 Sportback 8V (2013-2020)

This kit is matched to the Audi S3 Sportback 8V, chassis code AU52-C, across the 2013-2020 production run. It’s specified for the modified rear-integrated (Φ55) mounting used on this generation, and includes the cancellation kit needed on cars built with Audi’s electronically controlled damping so the standard dash doesn’t flag a fault after the coilovers go on.

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