XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Ford FIESTA ST 2013-2017

The Mk7 Ford Fiesta ST turns in like few other front-drivers, but its torsion-beam rear and short wheelbase punish any damper that can’t keep pace over a broken sealed surface. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is built for exactly that brief: keeping a light, boosted 1.6 EcoBoost hatch planted when the asphalt stops behaving like a smooth circuit.

These are stage-spec dampers, tuned from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally programme rather than adapted from a road kit. The job is traction and body control on patched, cambered, kerb-strewn sealed stages, the kind of surface that unsettles a standard Fiesta ST long before outright grip runs out.

What this coilover does for your 2013-2017 Ford Fiesta ST

On a tarmac stage, the gain you feel first is composure over impacts. The damping is set to absorb the jolt from broken pavement and kerb strikes without pitching the light front end, so the front tyres stay loaded and the ST keeps biting through fast direction changes. Over crests and patched repairs the rear stays settled instead of skipping, which on a twist-beam car is the difference between a confident lift-off rotation and a snap you spend the corner chasing. That same control carries over to fast road use: the car feels tied down rather than nervous, and traction off slower corners improves because the contact patch isn’t fighting the surface.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally coilover is a dedicated sealed-stage damper, not a fast-road kit running stiffer springs. Its valving is built to absorb the impact of uneven pavement and soak up the jolt of a big bump or kerb without transmitting that shock into the body, so the car stays flat and predictable when the surface turns ragged. The payoff is mechanical grip: by keeping the tyre in contact with a moving surface, the damper increases traction where a stiffer circuit setup would skip and scrub. Stability runs through the whole design brief, the aim being to make a fast, light hatch feel composed at the limit rather than simply sit lower. Every setting in the kit comes from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally competition experience, so the baseline is a tested stage tune rather than a guess.

Fitment for the Ford Fiesta ST (2013-2017)

This kit is specified for the Ford Fiesta ST sold between 2013 and 2017, fitting the ST chassis rather than a standard Fiesta. Check that your car’s build year falls inside the 2013-2017 window, then confirm the exact spec in the configurator below.

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Pick the ride height and damping settings that suit your stage or road use and configure your Fiesta ST coilover spec below.