XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Jaguar S-TYPE (Fr EYE) 1999-2008

The S-TYPE rides on a long wheelbase with a soft, comfort-biased OE damper tune that was tuned for executive saloon duty, not for the way a modern enthusiast actually drives one. Once you start pressing on, the front-end takes a beat to settle, the body leans, and the rear follows along a fraction late. The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover for the Jaguar S-TYPE (Fr EYE) 1999-2008 is built to remove that lag without turning a 1.7-tonne saloon into something punishing on a UK B-road.

It is a fast-road biased damper with enough range to handle a weekend track day, which suits the way most surviving S-TYPEs are used in 2026 – a usable enthusiast saloon that occasionally gets stretched.

What this coilover does for your 1999-2008 Jaguar S-Type

Drop the ride height and the S-TYPE’s centre of gravity follows it down, which is the single biggest handling win on this chassis – body roll falls away and the front tyre stops washing wide on the way into a roundabout. The 36-way damping adjustment lets you run the car soft enough for poor surfaces during the week and firm it up for a smoother circuit or a favourite road at the weekend, without breaking out spanners. Turn-in sharpens, the rear stays planted under trail-braking, and the kerb-strike thump that comes from worn factory dampers disappears. Stance-wise, you can close the arch gap that ages this car visually and still keep useful suspension travel for British road surfaces.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s fast-road platform, engineered specifically to take the discomfort out of bumps and broken tarmac while still giving you proper handling authority. Each damper offers 36-way bump and rebound adjustment from a single knob, and ride height is set independently of spring preload so you can lower the car without binding the spring. The intent is a damper that copes with day-to-day driving on rough surfaces yet has the body control to be pushed hard on a weekend race outing. Construction is the standard XYZ twin-tube performance build with pillowball top mounts where the chassis allows and a hardened piston rod for fade resistance during back-to-back sessions. The damping curve is deliberately set up wider than a pure circuit kit, which is why this is the kit most buyers default to for a road car that sees occasional track use.

Fitment for the Jaguar S-Type (1999-2008)

This kit is specified for the Jaguar S-TYPE with the front EYE-mount lower damper attachment, chassis reference JA01-1, covering the 1999 to 2008 production run. Confirm your front lower mount is the EYE type before ordering – the S-TYPE was produced with more than one front mount style and the wrong one will not bolt up.

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Configure your spring rates and ride height in the spec builder below to match how you actually use the car.