XYZ Racing Top Sport Coilovers — BMW 5 SERIES F10 M5 (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2011-2017

The F10 M5 arrived with a 560bhp twin-turbo S63 sat over the front axle and an electronic damper system trying to second-guess every input – smart in the rain on the A1, less so when you’re trail-braking a 1,945kg saloon into Druids. This Top Sport kit is the spec to fit when you’ve decided the EDC software is the limiting factor, not the chassis.

Built around a cancellation harness that tells the car its dampers are still being managed, the kit hands physical control of bump, rebound and ride height back to the driver. Spring rates and damping sit roughly 30-50% firmer than the OE street tune, which is where an F10 M5 starts to feel like the track car the engine always promised.

What this coilover does for your 2011-2017 Bmw 5 SERIES F10 M5 (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping)

Most F10 M5 owners describe the factory ride as either too soft in Comfort or too brittle in Sport Plus, with very little useful ground in between. Swapping in the Top Sport with the EDC cancellation loom removes that all-or-nothing behaviour and gives you a single, consistent platform you can actually set up. Body roll through long third-gear corners tightens noticeably, and the rear axle stops squatting under boost in second and third. The 30-way damping adjustment lets you run the car softer for B-road work and stiffen it for circuit days without crawling under the car. Drop the ride height a sensible amount and the F10’s slightly tall stance finally matches the aggression of the M5 bodywork.

About the Top Sport coilover

The Top Sport sits in the XYZ Racing range as the kit aimed squarely at occasional track-day drivers who still use the car on the road during the week. Damping is set roughly 30-50% firmer than a street-only coilover, and spring rates are typically raised by around 2kg/mm over a comfort tune – enough to control a heavy saloon under hard braking and high-speed direction changes, but still able to absorb the larger compressions you get on broken UK B-roads. XYZ describe the construction as engineered to suppress body shock and increase tyre contact across uneven surfaces, which is essentially what you need at somewhere like Cadwell Park. The settings are drawn directly from XYZ’s own Top Sport race programme, then dialled back slightly for road usability. The cancellation kit version ships with the wiring loom needed to bypass the F10’s electronic damping ECU without throwing dashboard faults.

Fitment for the Bmw 5 SERIES F10 M5 (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) (2011-2017)

This kit is specified for the F10 M5 chassis (BM75-11-C) across the full 2011-2017 production run. It is the variant supplied with the EDC cancellation loom, so it suits cars originally fitted with the factory electronic damping system. Standard non-EDC F10s should be ordered with the regular Top Sport kit instead.

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Pick your damping, spring and height spec for the F10 M5 in the configurator below and build the exact kit for how you actually use the car.