XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz CLA C118 4WD φ53 2019-2025

The CLA C118 4Matic carries genuine rear-axle hardware and a transfer case under a bodyshell styled for a low, coupe-like roofline, and that combination punishes a soft factory damper. Weight shifts hard onto the nose under trail braking, then just as hard onto the rear axle when the 4Matic system starts feeding torque back, and the standard suspension struggles to settle either end quickly on a typical UK B-road.

XYZ Racing’s Super Sport coilover kit for the Mercedes Benz CLA C118 4WD Φ53 is built for exactly that mix of fast-road driving and the occasional weekend track session, where the car needs to cope with motorway commuting on Monday and a trackday on Saturday without a suspension change in between.

What this coilover kit does for your 2019-2025 Mercedes Benz CLA C118 4WD Φ53

Installed on a 2019-2025 CLA C118, the kit’s 36-way damping adjustment lets you soften the low-speed compression circuit for broken B-road surfaces, then wind in more low- and high-speed control before a track day without swapping parts. That range matters on this chassis specifically because the 4Matic driveline adds unsprung mass at the rear, and a damper that’s too soft there lets the back axle wallow under throttle changes mid-corner. Independent ride height adjustment brings the coupe’s stance down without dropping it onto its bump stops, correcting some of the nose-heavy squat under hard acceleration that the factory setup allows. Body control through direction changes tightens up noticeably, and the front end resists dive under braking rather than loading the outside tyre late.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s dual-use damper, built to take the harshness out of poor road surfaces while still giving 36 separate damping positions to work with. Ride height is adjustable independently of the damping circuit, so you can set stance and corner weights without disturbing the compression and rebound settings you’ve already dialled in. The valving is tuned to soak up sharp, high-frequency inputs – expansion joints, patched tarmac, speed humps – rather than transmitting them straight into the cabin, which is the complaint XYZ Racing built this damper to fix. It’s positioned between a fast-road-only setup and a dedicated Track Sport unit: firm enough to control a heavier 4Matic chassis under load, compliant enough that the CLA C118 remains usable as a daily car. Construction follows XYZ Racing’s typical monotube-style damper body, sized to Φ53 for this application to give the shim stack enough surface area for consistent damping across that 36-way range.

Fitment for the Mercedes Benz CLA C118 4WD φ53 (2019-2025)

This kit is specified for the Mercedes Benz CLA C118 in 4Matic (4WD) guise, chassis code ME28-1, covering the 2019 to 2025 model years. The Φ53 damper body is matched to this chassis’s front and rear mounting points and spring perches, so confirm your CLA is the 4Matic variant rather than the front-wheel-drive C118 before ordering, as the two use different rear geometry.

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