XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Maserati GHIBLI M157 (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2013-2026

The Ghibli M157’s Skyhook adaptive damping is clever on paper and a liability the moment an owner wants stiffer rates, lower ride height, or a setup that holds up to repeat B-road stints. Once a Skyhook strut fails out of warranty, the replacement bill alone justifies a switch to a manually adjustable platform – and that is exactly what this XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally kit is here to do.

This is the rally-spec damper paired with the M157 cancellation harness, so the car’s ECU stops throwing a damping fault the moment the original electronic struts come off. You get a genuinely tuneable Ghibli for the first time since it left Modena, without an EML staring back at you on the dashboard.

What this coilover does for your 2013-2026 Maserati GHIBLI M157 (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping)

Tarmac Rally valving runs softer than XYZ’s circuit-focused range, which is the right call on a 1,810kg saloon that needs body control over broken tarmac rather than flat-floor track surfaces. The 36-way damping adjuster lets you wind compression and rebound together, so an owner can run a comfort setup for motorway miles and stiffen the car up for a weekend on the moors without lifting the bonnet. Ride-height adjustment is independent of spring preload, which matters on a long-wheelbase Ghibli where corner-weighting changes how the front splitter sits relative to the kerb. The cancellation kit defeats the Skyhook fault codes cleanly – no resistor packs taped to the loom, no intermittent dash warnings two months later.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally sits in XYZ Racing’s rally-derived range, built around a 52mm monotube damper body with separate compression and rebound circuits feeding a single adjuster knob. Spring rates are chosen for sealed-surface rally stages rather than circuit work, which translates well to fast UK A-roads where surface quality is the limiting factor. Pillowball top mounts replace the rubber-bushed factory units, sharpening turn-in response without introducing the harshness you would get from a circuit-spec setup. The strut bodies are pre-loaded to take Maserati-specific mounting hardware, and the M157 variant ships with the electronic-damping cancellation harness pre-terminated for the Ghibli’s loom. Construction is the same hard-anodised, nickel-plated finish XYZ uses across the catalogue, which matters on a car that will see UK winter salt.

Fitment for the Maserati GHIBLI M157 (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) (2013-2026)

This kit is specific to the M157 Ghibli chassis from 2013 through 2026, covering both rear-wheel-drive and Q4 all-wheel-drive variants fitted with the Skyhook electronic damping system from the factory. The included cancellation harness is required for any M157 Ghibli that was originally specified with adaptive dampers – fitting standard coilovers without it will trigger a permanent fault in the suspension ECU.

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Pick your spring rates, damper preference and top-mount option in the configurator below.