XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz CLA C118 4WD φ53 2019-2025

The CLA C118’s 4WD layout sends drive to all four corners, which means the standard suspension is tuned around a compromise between traction and the sporty stance Mercedes sells this car on. That compromise shows up as body movement you can feel through fast direction changes, particularly with the extra hardware the 4WD system adds to the rear axle. The Street Advanced coilover is built to close that gap without turning the car into a track-only tool.

For CLA C118 owners splitting their time between motorway commutes and the odd track day, this kit gives you a chassis that can be firmed up for a circuit session on Saturday and backed off for the drive home. It is not a single-purpose damper – it is built to cover both ends of that use case properly.

What this coilover does for your 2019-2025 Mercedes Benz CLA

Fitted to the C118, the Street Advanced coilover’s 720-way damping adjustment lets you tune compression and rebound independently of ride height, so you can firm up body control through a fast on-ramp without the low-speed ride turning harsh over expansion joints and drain covers on the A-roads this car actually lives on. Because the 4WD CLA carries more unsprung mass at the rear than the front-drive variant, having that much adjustment range matters more here than on a lighter chassis – it gives you the room to balance the two axles rather than settling for one damper rate front and rear. Ride height is adjustable independently of the damping, so you can drop the car for a cleaner aero line and a lower centre of gravity without using up your rebound travel to do it. The result on the road is a CLA that turns in with less initial roll, holds its line through a compression, and still rides acceptably on a daily commute.

About the Street Advanced coilover

Street Advanced is XYZ Racing’s core product line, refined over several years of development and proven in competition before being brought down to road-going spec. It carries 720 damping adjustment positions, giving a far wider tuning window than a fixed-rate or coarsely-adjustable damper, and is built for owners who want a car that’s equally at home on a normal commute and a track day. The construction draws directly on lessons from XYZ’s motorsport programme, translated into a kit that doesn’t need a trackside mechanic to live with day to day. Where a race-only damper trades away ride comfort entirely, Street Advanced keeps enough compliance in reserve that the CLA doesn’t turn into a jackhammer on UK roads, while still giving you the adjustment range to stiffen everything up when the car sees a circuit.

Fitment for the Mercedes Benz CLA C118 (2019-2025)

This kit is built specifically for the 4WD Mercedes Benz CLA C118, chassis code ME28-1, covering model years 2019 through 2025. It is matched to the 4WD driveline layout of this generation, so the geometry and mounting points account for the additional rear-axle hardware that variant carries versus the front-drive CLA.

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