XYZ Racing Pro Rally Coilovers — Jaguar XJ (X351) 6 CYL (Fr FORK) (OE FOR REAR AIR STRUT) 2010-2019

The X351 XJ’s aluminium unibody keeps this generation lighter than almost any rival saloon of its footprint, but the standard air struts on the rear axle were calibrated for a motorway ride, not for launching off a compression on loose gravel. Swap that rear air strut for a coil-over corner and the car stops ballooning under load transfer every time the surface changes beneath it.

The Pro Rally spec is built for exactly that scenario: top-flight rally competition, where a big four-door saloon has to behave like a stage car for a weekend. Fitted at all four corners – the front using XYZ’s fork-strut layout, the rear replacing the OE air strut outright – it gives the XJ a fixed, adjustable platform instead of a self-levelling one reacting to compressor data rather than the driver’s inputs.

What this coilover does for your 2010-2019 Jaguar XJ

On a car built to waft on air, ditching the rear strut for a coil-over changes the fundamental behaviour of the back axle. Ride height stops drifting with load – useful when a full rally crew and spares sit in the boot – and the setup stays consistent from the first stage to the last, rather than the compressor working overtime to keep the body level. At the front, the fork-strut geometry lets the six-cylinder’s weight settle predictably into a compression instead of diving and unsettling the steering. Corner-weighting the car for a gravel or snow event becomes possible in a way it never was with height-sensing air bags, and the driver gets a repeatable turn-in point through a rutted hairpin regardless of how hard the rear axle was loaded on the preceding straight.

About the Pro Rally coilover

XYZ splits gravel and snow rally suspension into two distinct approaches, and this kit sits in the professional camp. An amateur-spec rally strut bolts straight to the original chassis mounting points with no further work, which suits a club-level entry but limits how far the geometry can be pushed. The Pro Rally kit for the XJ is built for cars whose bodywork has already been prepared for competition, which is why it’s matched specifically to the fork-type front strut and a rear unit engineered to replace the OE air strut directly, rather than sold as a generic drop-in. On a car this size and weight, getting the geometry right on a modified aluminium shell takes a strut built for that shell, not an off-the-shelf unit designed for a standard road car.

Fitment for the Jaguar XJ (2010-2019)

This kit is specified for the Jaguar XJ (X351), 6-cylinder variants, built 2010-2019, with the front strut using the fork-type mounting and the rear unit engineered to replace the factory air strut directly. Confirm your car runs the 6-cylinder configuration and the OE rear air-strut arrangement before ordering, since the mounting points differ from other XJ drivetrain variants.

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Pick the Pro Rally spec built for your XJ’s fork-strut front end and rear air-strut replacement, and configure yours below.