XYZ Racing Top Sport Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz CLA C117 2013-2019

The C117 CLA arrived as Mercedes’ first proper crack at a four-door coupé on the MFA front-wheel-drive platform, and the chassis tells you about it the moment you load the front axle. There is honest grip there, but the standard dampers struggle to keep the nose tied down through a quick direction change, and the ride height looks awkward over the arches in factory trim. The XYZ Racing Top Sport coilover is the kit that addresses both problems at once on a C117.

Top Sport sits in XYZ’s track-leaning bracket of the range, so the brief here is circuit work and aggressive fast-road use rather than show stance. Expect a meaningful drop in body roll, a flatter platform under trail-braking, and a stance that finally suits the car’s coupé silhouette.

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

On the road, the most obvious change is composure – the C117 stops floating over mid-corner bumps and starts feeling planted on its outside front. Multi-stage damping adjustment lets you back the kit off for a motorway run and wind it up for a B-road or a Cadwell trackday without touching ride height. Height adjustment via the lower bracket (rather than spring perch only) means corner-weighting is a genuine option, which matters on a car where the FWD weight bias rewards a properly balanced setup. Spring rates are stiffer than OE but tuned for a kit you can drive every day, so the ride stays civilised over broken Tarmac. The result is a CLA that turns in harder, holds its line under power, and looks the part with the arches filled.

About the Top Sport coilover

Top Sport is the higher-performance tier in XYZ Racing’s road-and-track range, built around a monotube damper body with separate ride-height and damping adjustment. Spring rates are matched to the C117’s MFA platform rather than pulled from a generic catalogue, and the kit ships with pillowball top mounts on the front strut where the chassis allows it, sharpening turn-in response. Construction uses a hard-anodised aluminium body for corrosion resistance under UK winter salt, with rebuildable internals so the kit has a long service life rather than being a throwaway item. Damping is adjustable across a wide click range, biased toward firmer settings for circuit duty but with enough range at the softer end for daily use. The whole assembly is designed to be installed using standard tooling – no chassis modification required on a C117.

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

This kit is built for the C117-generation CLA across the full 2013-2019 production run, covering the pre-facelift and facelift cars on the MFA platform. Front-wheel-drive and 4MATIC variants are both addressed by the C117 chassis-code specification.

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The configurator below lets you set spring rates and any optional upgrades for your exact C117 – pick your spec below to build the kit for your car.