XYZ Racing Racing Spec Coilovers — Renault CLIO MK4 RS (Modified Rear Integrated) 2012-2018

The Clio RS RE08’s torsion-beam rear axle means every change in spring rate and damping at the back wheels alters the way the car rotates more directly than a multi-link platform allows – there’s no extra geometry hiding a poorly chosen damper. For serious track and time-attack use, that puts real weight on the shock absorber’s job: controlling body movement under trail-braking into an apex and keeping the rear axle settled through fast, off-camber changes of direction.

XYZ Racing’s Racing Spec coilover for the Renault CLIO MK4 RS covers this 2012-2018 RE08 fitment with a set-up built around circuit and time-attack driving rather than a compromise for road use. It replaces the factory spring and damper as a matched pair, so the front end’s turn-in and the rear beam’s control are tuned together rather than left to fight each other across a session.

What this coilover does for your 2012-2018 Renault CLIO MK4 RS

Installed on the RE08, the Racing Spec kit lets you drop the ride height and firm up compression and rebound to suit a specific circuit rather than accepting one setting for every corner. The Clio RS already carries strong front-end grip from the factory, and a coilover built for competition use lets you sharpen that further by controlling dive under hard braking into slow corners, which is where time is won or lost in a front-driven hatch. At the rear, tighter damping control over the torsion beam reduces the small hop and skip that beam-axle Clios show over kerbs and mid-corner bumps, keeping the inside rear wheel loaded instead of unloading over every ripple. The lower ride height that comes with a height-adjustable set-up also cuts roll through the RE08’s quicker direction changes, so the front tyres stay working instead of scrubbing wide. Together these changes make the car respond consistently through a full track session instead of the balance shifting as tyres and brakes get hot.

About the Racing Spec coilover

The Racing Spec range is XYZ Racing’s dedicated circuit damper, and the valving isn’t guesswork pulled from a road-going line – it comes out of the settings XYZ Racing has run in its own World Touring Car Championship programme. That background matters more than a marketing line: a damper that has to survive a WTCC weekend has already been proven at loads and frequencies well beyond what a fast road car sees. For cars built further than a Racing Spec kit off the shelf – full cage, aero, a heavily built engine, the sort of specification you’d see on a genuine A-class racing car – XYZ Racing will build a custom shock absorber to match, based on the specific upgrades fitted and the circuit the car is built to run. That bespoke route needs the buyer to supply detail on what’s been changed on the car and where it races, so the valving can be set for that exact combination rather than a generic track setting. For the standard Racing Spec kit on this RE08 fitment, the same track-first approach carries through in construction and adjustment range, aimed at drivers running the Clio in genuine competition or serious time-attack rather than fast road use.

Fitment for the Renault CLIO MK4 RS (2012-2018)

This kit is built for the RE08-generation Clio RS, covering the 2012 to 2018 model years sold under the Mk4 RS badge. It’s specified for the Modified Rr Integrated fitment variant, so confirm your car matches that rear-end specification before ordering rather than assuming the standard Mk4 RS setup applies.

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Pick your spec for the Clio RS RE08 in the configurator below – the standard Racing Spec settings for most competition use, or the custom-build route if your car runs upgrades beyond factory spec.