XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Renault CLIO 2.0 (TYPE 2) 2001-2005

The Renault Clio 172 and 182 arrived with genuine sporting intent already engineered into the chassis – the RS team had done serious work before you ever lifted a spanner. What the standard setup couldn’t resolve was the tension between compliance on corrugated UK B-roads and the front-axle precision these cars reward at speed. The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover for the Renault Clio 2.0 (Type 2) addresses exactly that balance.

Covering the 2001 to 2005 model years, the Super Sport targets fast-road and weekend track use – the natural rhythm of an RS Clio that spends Monday to Friday on patchy tarmac and Saturday morning on circuit.

What this coilover does for your 2001-2005 Renault CLIO 2.0 (TYPE 2)

The 36-way damping adjustment gives you a meaningful spread between a road-compliant setup and a stiffer track configuration – critical for a chassis that can feel brittle over the kind of broken surfaces that characterise much of the UK’s B-road network. Ride height adjustment lets you lower the Clio’s centre of gravity below factory, tightening up the handling on a car whose front-heavy 2.0 layout already puts significant load through the front axle. The construction absorbs the sharp impact energy from rough surfaces that the standard RE02 dampers can pass straight through at their limit, delivering a more consistent feel without demanding you run the car too soft for serious cornering.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s fast-road and light competition unit, built around a 36-way damping range that you can adjust without removing the coilover from the car. That access matters for anyone using the same kit on consecutive track days and long motorway runs. The core engineering targets the specific discomfort that comes from bump and road-surface impact – absorbing that energy rather than transmitting it – while simultaneously offering the ride height range to genuinely alter the car’s geometry. The resulting spec covers both weekend competition use and daily road conditions from the same set of adjustments, without forcing a choice between the two.

Fitment for the Renault CLIO 2.0 (TYPE 2) (2001-2005)

This kit is built to the RE02 chassis specification and covers the Renault Clio 2.0 (Type 2) from 2001 through to the end of the 182’s production run in 2005. The Clio II range ran multiple engine and body configurations across this window, so confirm your chassis designation is the 2.0 (Type 2) application before ordering.

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Configure yours below – the selector will confirm height range and damping options for your RE02.