XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — BMW 3 SERIES F80 M3 2014-2018

The F80 M3’s twin-turbo S55 hits with a shove of torque from just above idle, and under hard throttle out of a slow corner the standard-fit adaptive dampers spend as much time fighting squat and wheelspin as they do controlling the chassis. That factory compromise – soft enough for a daily commute, never quite settled enough when the S55 unloads its torque mid-corner – is the specific problem a manual coilover kit is built to solve.

The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover for the BMW 3 Series F80 M3 is built around fast-road and weekend track use: a set-up you can run to the circuit on a Friday night and back to the office on Monday. Ride height and damping are both in your hands rather than a control module’s, so the platform can be set to match how you actually drive the car rather than how BMW assumed you might.

What this coilover does for your 2014-2018 BMW 3 Series F80 M3

Fitted to the F80, this kit gives you direct control over the two things that most affect how the car squats and rotates under power: ride height and damping force. Lowering the centre of gravity trims some of the weight transfer that the S55’s torque exaggerates onto the rear axle at corner exit, while the 36 damper settings let you firm up compression under hard acceleration without turning the ride brittle on the road home. Because adjustment is manual rather than software-managed, the same kit that soaks up a pockmarked B-road on the way to a track day can be stiffened in the paddock before your first session, then backed off again for the drive home. For a car whose factory dampers are tuned as a compromise across the whole range, that spread of adjustment is the practical upgrade the F80 M3 platform benefits from most.

About the Super Sport coilover

XYZ Racing’s Super Sport damper was designed to strip out the harshness that comes with a stiffer spring rate, so bumps and rough tarmac don’t translate straight into the cabin the way they can on a basic lowering kit. Ride height is adjustable independently of the damping, and each corner offers 36 distinct damping settings, giving a wide enough spread to run the car soft for a daily commute or firm it up for a track session without swapping parts. XYZ pitches the Super Sport specifically at drivers who split their time between road and weekend racing, rather than at a single use case – the damper has to cope with potholes on a Tuesday and a paddock apex kerb on a Saturday. For the F80 M3, a car whose owners tend to use it as both a fast-road car and an occasional track tool, that dual-purpose remit lines up with how the platform actually gets driven.

Fitment for the BMW 3 Series F80 M3 (2014-2018)

This kit is built for the F80-chassis BMW 3 Series M3, covering the 2014 to 2018 model years. It’s specced around the F80’s standard ride height and suspension geometry, so no additional adapters or modified mounts are needed on a factory-spec F80 M3 within this year range.

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Spec is set per corner rather than off a fixed table, so pick the ride height and damping range that suits how you actually use your F80 M3 and configure yours below.