XYZ Racing Pro Rally Coilovers — BMW 5 SERIES F11 (OE FOR REAR AIR STRUT) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2010-2017

The F11 Touring is a long, heavy estate that BMW built around adaptive damping and rear self-levelling air struts – hardware that was never meant to see a rally stage. The Pro Rally kit deletes both systems outright, swapping the OE rear air strut for a proper coilover and including the cancellation module so the dash stops complaining about the electronic damper circuit it can no longer talk to.

This is the gravel and snow specification, built for stage use rather than fast-road compromise. If you are taking an F11 chassis (2010-2017) into competition – historic rally, regional stage events, ice driving – this is the suspension that lets the car actually work as a rally car instead of fighting its factory comfort hardware every corner.

What this coilover does for your 2010-2017 Bmw 5 Series F11 (OE FOR REAR AIR Strut) (cancellation Kit For Electronic Damping)

The F11 is north of 1,800kg with a long wheelbase and a nose-heavy straight-six or V8 layout, and the factory air rear was tuned for executive comfort, not for landing the car after a yump. Replacing the rear air strut with a coilover gives you predictable, repeatable damping that doesn’t soften or stiffen based on load-sensing logic – critical when you’re loose on gravel and need the rear to do exactly the same thing on corner three as it did on corner one. Long suspension travel and rally-rate springs let the F11 absorb stage impacts without bottoming, while keeping the body controlled enough that you can actually read what the front axle is doing on turn-in. The cancellation kit handles the electronic-damping side cleanly, so you don’t end up with a permanent dashboard warning and a car that thinks something is broken. The result is a 5 Series that stops behaving like a luxury saloon and starts behaving like a chassis you can commit to.

About the Pro Rally coilover

The Pro Rally is XYZ Racing’s dedicated gravel and snow specification – the suspension that exists for stage rally and loose-surface competition, not for road use. It is built in two installation variants: an amateur-type that bolts directly to the original chassis with no body modification, and a professional-type designed to be fitted after the bodyshell has been prepared for competition. The Pro Rally architecture prioritises long stroke for landing impacts, valving tuned for unsealed surfaces, and the kind of construction that survives repeated abuse rather than chasing the last millimetre of road precision. This particular kit for the F11 is the more involved version of XYZ Racing’s rally programme, because the F11’s OE rear air strut hardware has to be removed and the electronic damping signal cancelled before the coilover can do its job. Spring rates, damping curves and ride height are all set up for rally use – if you are building a tarmac sprint car or a fast-road project, this is the wrong product in the range.

Fitment for the Bmw 5 Series F11 (OE FOR REAR AIR Strut) (cancellation Kit For Electronic Damping) (2010-2017)

This kit fits the F11 Touring (chassis code BM80-C) built between 2010 and 2017, specifically variants delivered with the OE rear air-strut self-levelling system. Included is the cancellation kit for the electronic damping circuit, which is required to suppress the dashboard fault codes once the factory adaptive dampers are removed. Confirm your car has the air-rear hardware before ordering – non-air F11 variants take a different coilover spec.

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Configure your Pro Rally spec for the F11 below – amateur or professional installation type, and any ride-height options – and build the kit that suits your stage programme.