XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Porsche PANAMERA (970) RWD (NOT AIR STRUT) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2009-2016

The Panamera 970’s factory air suspension trades outright handling precision for ride comfort and self-levelling convenience, but it also carries real weight and complexity that a fixed coilover set can strip away. Fitting the XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover to this Porsche means swapping the air struts for a mechanical, ride-height-adjustable damper, with the cancellation kit keeping the PASM electronics quiet once those original dampers are gone.

This RWD 970 (the non-4S, non-Turbo cars) still carries a long-wheelbase, engine-forward weight distribution that loads the front axle hard under trail braking. Super Sport’s 36-way damping adjustment gives enough range to firm up that front end for a B-road run or a weekend track day, then soften it again for the drive home.

What this coilover does for your 2009-2016 Porsche Panamera

Removing the factory air struts takes the diaphragm and compressor wear items out of the equation on a 970 that’s now well over a decade old, replacing them with a damper you set once and trust. Independent ride height adjustment lets you correct the nose-heavy stance this long-bonnet GT carries from the factory, dropping the front closer to the rear for a flatter look and a lower centre of gravity through direct-mount control. The 36-way damping adjustment lets you add low-speed compression at the front axle specifically, addressing the dive a big four-door GT generates under hard braking into a corner, without making the rear so stiff it skips over mid-corner bumps. Because the Super Sport platform is built for both fast-road and weekend track use, day-to-day compliance over UK B-roads and motorway expansion joints doesn’t disappear the way it can with a dedicated race-only setup.

About the Super Sport coilover

XYZ Racing’s Super Sport coilover is built around a damper tuned to take the harshness out of poor surfaces without dulling response, so the broken tarmac and expansion joints that make a stock air-strut Panamera feel unsettled at low speed get absorbed rather than passed straight through the chassis. Ride height is independently adjustable front and rear, so you can set the stance and corner weight this 970 needs rather than accepting whatever height the factory air system defaulted to. The damper offers 36 distinct settings, spanning a comfort-biased setting for everyday roads through to a firmer, circuit-focused setting for a track day, all from the same set of dampers. That spread is the point of the Super Sport line: one kit that covers a Saturday commute and a Sunday track session in the same Panamera, rather than forcing a choice between a comfort kit and a race kit.

Fitment for the Porsche Panamera (970) (2009-2016)

This kit is built for RWD variants of the first-generation Panamera, chassis code 970, built between 2009 and 2016 – cars specified without the factory air-strut suspension. Those cars still carry electronic PASM damping from the factory, which is why the cancellation kit for electronic damping is supplied alongside the coilovers: it stops the PASM system flagging dash faults once the original electronic dampers are removed.

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