XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — BMW 2 SERIES F45/F46 2014-2026

The F45/F46 2 Series is the awkward one in BMW’s rally conversation – transverse front-drive (or xDrive) underpinnings shared with the MINI F-platform, a tall, family-friendly silhouette, and a kerb weight that punishes any damper not built for vertical workload. None of that disqualifies it from a stage; it just demands a suspension setup that understands the chassis is fighting body mass and a high roof, not the low-slung balance of an E46.

The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover for the F45 Active Tourer and F46 Gran Tourer is built for sealed-stage work – smooth tarmac with the occasional broken kerb, expansion joint, or chewed-up apex that would unsettle a road-spec damper. It is the right pick for an owner who is taking an unlikely platform somewhere unusual and needs the kit to keep up.

What this coilover does for your 2014-2026 Bmw 2 Series F45/F46

The headline gain is composure when the surface stops cooperating. A sealed-stage damper has to absorb a hit, settle the body, and put the inside front tyre back on the road before the next corner arrives – and on an F45/F46 that means controlling a tall, nose-led platform that wants to pitch under braking and roll on turn-in. The Tarmac Rally valving is set up to soak impact without going soft on rebound, so the chassis recovers quickly and the contact patch keeps working. You will feel that as steering that stays honest mid-corner, brake stability over uneven entries, and a noticeable drop in the floaty, secondary motion that stock F45 dampers produce at speed.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is engineered specifically for sealed-stage rallying, not as a relabelled track damper. The valving philosophy is built around impact absorption – taking the jolt out of a big bump, suppressing body shock, and putting load back into the tyre quickly enough to maintain traction through the recovery. That bias toward shock control is the reason the platform feels planted on broken tarmac where a stiffer circuit damper would skip and unload. All of the baseline settings carry over from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally programme, so the kit arrives with valving informed by competition use rather than guess-work on a test rig. The result is a damper that prioritises chassis stability and handling consistency over raw spring rate – which is exactly the trade you want on a stage car.

Fitment for the Bmw 2 Series F45/F46 (2014-2026)

Listed for the F45 (Active Tourer) and F46 (Gran Tourer) chassis, model years 2014 through 2026, internal chassis code BM119. Confirm your drivetrain (front-drive or xDrive) and engine variant before ordering, as strut hardware can vary across the production run.

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Pick your spring rate and damping spec below and configure the kit for your F45 or F46.