XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz CLA C117 2013-2019

The C117 CLA arrived as a front-driven four-door coupé built on Mercedes’ MFA platform, sharing its bones with the A-Class and GLA. That heritage shows on a stage road: nose-led weight distribution, a rear axle that wants to follow rather than rotate, and standard dampers tuned for autobahn refinement rather than committed direction changes. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is built to flip that brief on its head.

For tarmac stage work and fast road events in a CLA C117, the priority is keeping the front contact patch loaded through compressions and getting the inside rear to break loose on entry. This kit gives the platform the geometry control and damping authority it never had from the factory.

What this coilover does for your 2013-2019 Mercedes Benz CLA C117

Drop the C117 onto Tarmac Rally damping and the front end immediately stops dragging its kerb weight around. Turn-in becomes sharper because the front struts hold the wheel against the road instead of running out of compression travel. Through long, loaded corners the chassis settles onto its outside rear rather than scrubbing wide, and you can begin to use throttle and lift-off to steer the car. Height adjustment lets you set the rake to encourage rotation without crashing the bumpstops, and the externally tuneable damping gives you a way to soften the front for cold, greasy surfaces or firm everything up when the road dries.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally series is built around a monotube damper with a separate piggyback reservoir, giving the oil somewhere to go on long, repetitive inputs without fading. Spring rates and valving are set for sealed-surface stage work – stiffer than a fast-road kit, but with enough mechanical compliance to ride mid-corner bumps without skipping the inside wheel. Pillowball top mounts replace the rubber items, removing the deflection that softens steering response, and ride height is set on threaded lower mounts so spring preload stays independent of corner weights. The damping is externally adjustable across a wide range, which matters on a platform like the C117 where front and rear behaviour need separate dial-ins.

Fitment for the Mercedes Benz CLA C117 (2013-2019)

This kit is built specifically for the C117-generation CLA produced between 2013 and 2019, covering the MFA-platform four-door coupé in its pre-facelift and facelift forms. Confirm your chassis code reads C117 in the VIN plate before ordering, particularly if the car has been re-shelled or imported.

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Pick your spring rates, top-mount preference and ride height below to configure your CLA’s setup.