XYZ Racing Top Sport Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz S CLASS W222 4WD (NON MBC hydraulic) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2014-2020

The W222 S-Class was engineered around Mercedes’ Magic Body Control and AIRMATIC hardware, which means swapping to a conventional coilover on a 4WD car is not a bolt-on weekend job – it is a deliberate decision to take back control of how a two-tonne luxury saloon rides. The XYZ Racing Top Sport coilover for the 4MATIC W222 ships with the cancellation kit needed to silence the factory electronic damping ECU, so the dashboard stays clean once the air struts come out.

This is the Top Sport spec, which sits at the circuit end of the XYZ catalogue. On a car as heavy and as long-wheelbase as the W222, that matters: spring rates and damper valving are doing real work to keep body movement in check, particularly through the rear axle where the long-wheelbase variants carry most of their mass.

What this coilover does for your 2014-2020 Mercedes Benz S CLASS W222 4WD (NON MBC hydraulic) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping)

Out of the box you get a saloon that finally sets its weight down on corner entry instead of leaning on the outside front tyre and waiting. Ride height drops cleanly across all four corners, which sharpens the visual stance the W222 was already trading on, and the 36-way damping adjustment lets you bias the car for motorway compliance during the week and tighten everything up before a track outing. The cancellation kit removes the suspension warning from the cluster, so you are not chasing fault codes every time you start the car. Brake feel improves as a knock-on effect – less nose dive under the W222’s heavy stoppers means the ABS threshold arrives later and more predictably. For 4MATIC cars in particular, the more consistent platform also helps the centre diff put power down out of slow corners without the rear squat that comes with worn or sagging air springs.

About the Top Sport coilover

The Top Sport is XYZ Racing’s circuit-focused coilover, built on a monotube damper body with 36-way damping adjustment that controls bump and rebound on a single knob per corner. Spring rates are matched to the W222’s mass and weight distribution, and the kit is supplied as a full four-corner replacement for the original AIRMATIC struts – struts, springs, top mounts and the electronic damping cancellation module are all in the box. The cancellation kit is the critical piece here: without it, removing the OE air struts on a 4MATIC W222 throws a suspension fault and leaves the car limping. With it, the cluster reads normally and the ECU stops looking for the missing sensors. Ride height is adjustable independently of spring preload, which is the right way to do it on a heavy car – you set the corner weights without coil-binding the springs.

Fitment for the Mercedes Benz S CLASS W222 (2014-2020)

This kit is specific to the W222-generation S-Class with 4MATIC all-wheel drive, chassis code ME65-C, covering the 2014 through 2020 model years. It is for the NON MBC hydraulic variant – cars fitted with Magic Body Control hydraulic suspension need a different kit. The cancellation module included is sized for the W222’s electronic damping ECU and removes the need for a separate aftermarket emulator.

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