XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — BMW 1 SERIES F40 3/4 CYL 2019-2026

The F40 broke with three decades of rear-wheel-drive 1 Series tradition, going transverse-engined and front-wheel-drive on the UKL platform shared with the Mini. That change moves more weight over the nose and puts torque steer and front-axle load transfer into play in a way the E87 and F20 never had to deal with. XYZ Racing’s Super Sport coilover is built for exactly this kind of car: a fast-road and weekend-track setup that keeps the front end honest under power without turning the ride into a chore for the rest of the week.

For the B38/B48-powered 3 and 4-cylinder F40, that means a damper that can be firmed up for a trackday morning and backed off again for the drive home, rather than a fixed-rate spring kit that only does one job well.

What this coilover does for your 2019-2026 BMW 1 Series F40 3/4 CYL

Ride height adjustment lets you correct the F40’s factory stance and drop the centre of gravity without resorting to spacers or cut springs, which matters on a chassis that already carries extra mass over the front wheels. The 36-way damping adjustment gives you a genuinely usable spread between a setting that keeps the front tyres loaded through trail-braking into a corner and one that takes the edge off broken UK B-roads on the commute. Because the compression and rebound curves are tunable independently of ride height, you can correct the F40’s nose-down weight bias without over-stiffening the rear and provoking snap oversteer on lift-off. The result is a car that turns in with less of the FWD push the F40 shows in standard form, and that stays composed when you’re carrying speed into a corner rather than just cruising through it.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s damper for owners who split their time between daily driving and weekend track sessions rather than committing fully to one or the other. It carries 36 stages of damping adjustment, enough range to move from a compliant road setting to a noticeably firmer track setting without swapping components, and independent ride height adjustment so you can dial in your corner weights and stance separately from the damping curve. The construction is aimed at absorbing the sharp edges of rough surfaces rather than transmitting every expansion joint and pothole straight into the cabin, which is the specific complaint XYZ built this damper to fix. It’s positioned as a middle-ground unit: firmer and more adjustable than a comfort-biased kit, but built to still work as a daily driver rather than a car you only wake up for on Saturday mornings.

Fitment for the BMW 1 Series F40 (2019-2026)

This kit is specified for the BMW 1 Series F40, chassis code BM109, covering the 3 and 4-cylinder petrol and diesel range built from 2019 through to 2026. It’s matched to the F40’s transverse UKL front subframe and multi-link rear, so front and rear rates are set for this platform specifically rather than carried over from the outgoing rear-wheel-drive F20.

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Spec your ride height and damping range for the F40 below, and build yours to suit whichever side of road and track you spend more time on.