XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Ford FOCUS ST HATCHBACK (Modified Rear Integrated) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2019-2026

The Focus ST Hatchback’s factory adaptive dampers do a decent job smoothing UK B-roads, but they’re tuned around a compromise most owners pushing this car hard eventually want rid of. Because this is the cancellation-kit fitment, it replaces that electronic damping outright, swapping the ECU-guessed valving for a passive 36-way adjustable damper you set yourself, corner by corner, rather than leaving it to a control module.

Ford put a lot of torque through the Focus ST’s front axle, and that changes what a coilover has to do compared with a rear-driven car. Run the front too soft and the nose washes wide under power out of a slow corner; run it too stiff and the standard car’s already firm ride turns punishing on a broken B-road. Super Sport spec sits in that gap deliberately – enough control for a fast-road car that gets driven properly, with the range to firm up for a trackday without living with a raced-out ride the rest of the week.

What this coilover kit does for your 2019-2026 Ford Focus ST Hatchback

With the electronic damping cancelled and this kit’s passive units in its place, the ST stops hunting between comfort and sport modes and instead holds whatever setting you give it. The 36-way adjustment lets you back the compression off for a motorway commute, then wind it up before a track session without pulling the car apart to do it. Independent ride height adjustment drops the centre of gravity and lets you correct the nose-heavy stance the 2.3 EcoBoost and turbo hardware give this car, which sharpens turn-in and cuts the understeer that shows up when you’re back on the throttle early out of a hairpin. Under trail braking into a fast corner, the extra low-speed compression control keeps the front end settled instead of diving and loading the outside tyre unevenly, which is where a lot of the standard car’s front-end push actually comes from.

About the Super Sport coilover

Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s answer to a car that gets driven hard on the road and occasionally taken to a trackday, rather than a car built solely for competition. The damper’s valving is aimed at removing the harshness a stiffer spring rate usually brings on rough tarmac, so the ride stays usable through potholes and patched surfaces instead of transmitting every impact into the cabin. Height is adjustable independently of the spring’s preload, so ride height and corner weighting can be set without changing how the damper behaves. The 36-way adjustment knob covers everything from a soft daily setting to a firm trackday one on the same damper, and the construction is aimed at holding that adjustment consistently whether the car’s doing a supermarket run or a full trackday.

Fitment for the Ford Focus ST Hatchback (2019-2026)

This kit is built for chassis code FO29-C, covering the Focus ST Hatchback from 2019 through to 2026. It’s specced for the version of the car fitted with electronic damping from the factory, and the kit includes the cancellation hardware needed to remove that system and run passive damping instead, alongside the modified rear mounting this integrated-rear variant requires.

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Spec varies by the exact FO29-C fitment and damping configuration, so pick yours below to match your Focus ST.