XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz E CLASS W212 8 CYL 2009-2016

The W212 E-Class’s V8 models carry a lot of weight over the front axle, and on the standard air suspension or worn factory dampers that mass makes itself known the moment you load the car into a fast B-road corner or a motorway on-ramp taken with intent. The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover replaces that compliance with a coilover set built for fast-road driving with weekend track days in mind, giving the W212 a chassis that can actually use the power the 8-cylinder engine puts down.

This is a full coilover kit, not a lowering spring, so ride height and damping are both adjustable from one system rather than fighting the factory setup. For a car this heavy, that matters: you can drop the stance for a lower centre of gravity without losing the damper control needed to keep a 1.8-tonne saloon settled through direction changes.

What this coilover does for your 2009-2016 Mercedes Benz E Class

Installed on the W212, the Super Sport kit’s 36-way damping adjustment lets you run the front end firmer to check the nose-heavy V8’s tendency to dive under braking and push wide mid-corner, while backing off compression at the rear keeps the car from skipping over broken tarmac on a fast A-road. Ride height adjustment brings the centre of gravity down, which shows up as less body roll through direction changes and a front end that turns in when you ask it to, rather than a beat later. Because the damping range spans from comfortable to properly stiff, the same car can be set up soft for a motorway commute and firmed up before a track day without swapping parts. The result is a W212 that feels planted under the V8’s torque rather than floating on it.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport sits in XYZ Racing’s range as the damper built to take the harshness out of rough or broken road surfaces without giving up the adjustability a heavier V8 saloon needs. It runs 36 levels of damping adjustment, so the rebound and compression characteristics can be tuned to match road conditions rather than locked to one compromise setting. Ride height is independently adjustable too, meaning stance and damping are set separately rather than one dictating the other. XYZ Racing positions this damper for cars that see both daily commuting and the occasional weekend track outing, which is exactly the brief for a big V8 E-Class that still needs to be liveable on the school run. Construction and adjustment range are shared across XYZ’s Super Sport line, but the valving and spring rates on this kit are matched specifically to the W212’s weight and axle loads.

Fitment for the Mercedes Benz E Class W212 8 CYL (2009-2016)

This kit is built for the Mercedes Benz E Class W212, chassis code ME14, across V8-engined ("8 CYL") variants produced between 2009 and 2016. Spring rates and damper valving are matched to the extra front-end mass the V8 models carry over the four and six-cylinder W212, so check your logbook confirms the 8-cylinder engine variant before ordering.

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Spec your ME14 V8’s ride height and damping to match how you actually drive it – configure yours below.