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

The S3 Sportback 8V carries its quattro driveline and turbocharged four up front, loading the nose hard under trail-braking and asking the standard suspension to control a heavier, AWD-specific structure without turning the ride brittle on B-roads. XYZ Racing’s Street Advanced coilover kit is built for that exact brief: a road-biased setup with enough adjustment range to firm up for a track day without punishing the daily commute.

This kit for the S3 Sportback pairs a lowered ride height with damping control fine enough to separate a comfortable setting from a composed one, rather than forcing a single compromise across every road surface you drive it on.

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

Dropping the ride height on the 8V platform lowers the centre of gravity that the quattro system and the 2.0 TFSI’s weight sit on, cutting the body roll that shows up mid-corner when the standard suspension is asked to control that extra mass. The 720-way damping adjustment on this Street Advanced kit means you are not choosing between two extremes – you can wind in enough compression to keep the front end flat under trail-braking on a track day, then back it off again for the motorway run home. Because this application uses Audi’s integrated rear shock design, the kit is engineered to bolt into that factory geometry rather than requiring subframe changes, keeping the install straightforward and the rear axle’s factory-tuned toe and camber behaviour intact. The net effect on the S3 Sportback is a car that turns in with less of the nose-heavy push the standard dampers allow, while still riding well enough to use every day.

About the Street Advanced coilover

Street Advanced sits in the middle of XYZ Racing’s coilover range, developed over a number of years by XYZ’s in-house engineering team and shaped by data pulled from race programmes the brand has run at circuits worldwide. It is positioned as the kit for owners who want one set of coilovers to cover both a normal commute and the occasional track day, rather than switching between separate street and competition setups. The headline spec is the 720-position damping adjustment, giving a wide enough band to move from a compliant road setting to a firmer track-day platform without swapping any components. Construction is aimed at drivers who want their car to feel planted and controllable at speed, not just lowered for looks – it is built first as a functional handling upgrade, with the adjustment range there to be used rather than left on a factory setting.

Fitment for the Audi S3 Sportback (2013-2020)

This kit is built for the Audi S3 Sportback 8V produced between 2013 and 2020, specifically for the φ55 shock-body variant with the modified rear integrated shock configuration used on this platform. Check that your S3 Sportback matches this chassis and production window before ordering, as suspension geometry on the 8V changed across its model years.

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Pick your damping and ride-height spec for your S3 Sportback below and configure the kit to match how you actually drive it.