XYZ Racing Drag Racing Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz CLS C218 4/6 CYL (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2011-2018

The C218-generation CLS leans on Mercedes’ Airmatic-linked electronic damping to keep a nearly two-tonne four-door coupe composed through corners, but that same system fights against everything a hard launch needs: instant weight transfer to the rear axle and a damper rate that won’t hunt for balance mid-run. XYZ Racing’s Drag Racing coilover for the Mercedes Benz CLS C218 4/6 CYL, supplied with the cancellation kit for electronic damping, replaces the factory adaptive dampers with a fixed mechanical setup built around 0-400 launch loads rather than motorway comfort.

Where the Top Sport or Super Sport ranges chase cornering balance, this kit is set up for a straight line: getting the CLS’s mass onto the rear tyres the instant the clutch or torque converter locks up, and keeping it there through the run. The cancellation kit removes the electronic damping conflict so the car reads the static suspension correctly instead of flagging faults or reverting to a default comfort mode.

What this coilover does for your 2011-2018 Mercedes Benz CLS C218 4/6 CYL (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping)

Off the line, the front-to-rear weight bias the kit is built around pushes load onto the rear contact patch the moment power goes down, which is exactly what a heavy, front-engined CLS needs to stop wheelspin eating into the run. Because the setting increases compression at the driven wheels rather than just stiffening the whole car, the CLS settles onto its rear tyres instead of squatting and rolling weight sideways under load. That shortens the time the wheel spends unloaded after launch, which is where most of a heavy saloon’s 0-400 time gets lost. With the electronic damping cancelled out, the ride height and damping stay exactly where they’re set run after run, on both the four-cylinder and six-cylinder C218 CLS.

About the Drag Racing coilover

XYZ Racing’s Drag Racing coilover is built specifically for 0-400 metre drag work across front-, rear- and four-wheel-drive platforms, which covers the CLS in both its 4-cylinder and 6-cylinder C218 forms. The core of the design is a damping and spring setting that shifts weight between the front and rear axles as the car accelerates, loading the driven wheels harder than a standard road-biased coilover would. That extra compression at the tyre means the contact patch is pressed into the tarmac rather than left to find grip on its own, which cuts the amount of time the wheel spends spinning free after launch. For the C218 CLS, that setting is paired with a cancellation kit for the factory electronic damping, so the mechanical suspension runs independently of the car’s Airmatic control unit instead of being overridden by it. The result is a suspension calibrated around straight-line acceleration and stability at speed, not the cornering remit the CLS left the factory with.

Fitment for the Mercedes Benz CLS C218 4/6 CYL (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) (2011-2018)

This kit fits the C218-generation Mercedes Benz CLS, chassis code ME20-1-C, across the 2011-2018 production run, covering both 4-cylinder and 6-cylinder variants. The cancellation kit for electronic damping is required on any CLS built with the factory’s electronically controlled dampers, so the car runs static coilover rates instead of Airmatic’s adaptive control.

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Spec is set by engine variant and the electronic damping cancellation kit this C218 CLS needs, so build yours below.