XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Ford FOCUS φ49.5 (without rear top mount) 2006-2007

The Mk1 Focus’s φ49.5 strut architecture, sold here without the rear top mount, is a chassis that rewards a coilover which keeps the front end honest under trail-braking without turning the ride into a penalty box for daily use. XYZ Racing’s Street Advanced kit for this 2006-2007 Focus is built for exactly that brief: fast-road driving with the option of a track day, not a car that only makes sense on slicks.

Owners running these Focus chassis on 17s or 18s already know the standard dampers give up long before the front tyres do – body control goes soft mid-corner and the rear end gets vague over compressions. This kit addresses that directly, and the adjustability means you’re not locked into one compromise.

What this coilover does for your 2006-2007 Ford Focus

With 720 damping settings on tap, you can run the Focus soft enough for a motorway commute and firm enough for a B-road blast without swapping parts. The height-adjustable perches let you set ride height independently of spring preload, so you can correct the nose-up stance common on this generation of Focus without over-compressing the springs. Sharper damping control also cuts the float you get from worn OE struts over mid-corner bumps, which on a front-driven chassis like this translates directly into more predictable turn-in. Because the kit is built around fast-road use first, the low-speed compression stays compliant enough that you’re not fighting the car every time you hit a pothole on the way to work.

About the Street Advanced coilover

XYZ Racing describes this as its most popular Street Advance line, developed over several years of in-house testing and proven in competition by teams racing worldwide. The 720-way damping adjustment sits at the centre of the design, giving a far finer resolution of tuning than a basic 16 or 32-click unit, so you can find a setting between "comfortable" and "controlled" rather than jumping between the two. It’s built for drivers who split their time between normal road use and the occasional track day, rather than a car that lives permanently on a circuit. The construction and adjustment range are aimed at drivers who want genuine control over how the car sits and moves, not just a lowered ride height. For a Focus of this era, that combination – fine damping resolution plus height adjustment – is what separates a Street Advanced kit from a fixed-rate lowering spring set.

Fitment for the Ford Focus (2006-2007)

This kit is built for the Ford Focus with the φ49.5 strut diameter (chassis code FO33), specifically the version without a rear top mount, covering the 2006 to 2007 model years. Confirm your Focus uses this strut diameter and rear mounting configuration before ordering, as Focus generations changed strut architecture across their production run.

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Configure the damping and height settings for your Focus below to match how you’ll actually use the car.