XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Skoda OCTAVIA 5E WAGON φ55 (Rear Multi-Link Suspension) 2013-2019

A five-door estate wasn’t drawn up with stage rallying in mind, and the standard suspension on the Skoda Octavia 5E Wagon shows it the first time a stage throws a broken-edged compression at the car at speed. XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally coilover for the Octavia 5E Wagon (2013-2019) is built around that gap: a 55mm-body damper sized for sealed-surface stage work, where the road changes character from corner to corner and the rear multi-link axle needs to keep tracking rather than skipping.

Loaded with service kit, spare wheel and cage bracing over the rear axle, this wagon carries more weight than the hatch it’s based on, and standard dampers fade before the tyres do. This kit is set up for exactly that brief – stages that mix broken tarmac, fast direction changes and heavy braking into a hairpin, not a track day or a motorway commute.

What this coilover kit does for your 2013-2019 Skoda Octavia Wagon

Fitted to the 5E’s rear multi-link geometry, the 55mm damper body carries more oil volume and builds heat more slowly than a standard-diameter unit, which counts over a full rally leg rather than a single fast lap. On a broken tarmac stage the damping absorbs a pothole or crest hit without kicking the body sideways, so the tyre stays loaded and keeps finding traction through the exit instead of skating over the bump. The firmer overall setup checks the nose-down weight transfer this Octavia carries into a hard braking zone ahead of a hairpin, keeping the front tyres working rather than diving while the rears unload. Ride height adjusts at the strut body, so the wagon can be set to whatever stage-specific ground clearance a crew needs without disturbing the geometry the rest of the kit is built around.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

XYZ Racing built the Tarmac Rally line to cope with broken and uneven road surfaces rather than a smooth circuit – the kind of stage where a big compression event arrives without warning and the damper has to control it in one hit. The valving is set to absorb that impact rather than pass it straight into the chassis, which keeps the body settled and stops a sudden jolt unsettling the car mid-corner. That control is what feeds tyre traction back into the equation: a chassis that isn’t bucking over every crest puts more of its contact patch on the road when it matters. The settings in this kit aren’t a desk exercise – they carry over from XYZ’s own tarmac rally running into a road-legal product. On the Octavia’s rear multi-link end, that shows up as a suspension that holds its line through a sequence of direction changes instead of settling late out of each one.

Fitment for the Skoda Octavia 5E Wagon Φ55 (Rr Multi-Link Suspension) (2013-2019)

This kit is built for the Skoda Octavia 5E Wagon with the rear multi-link suspension arrangement and 55mm damper body specification, covering the 2013 to 2019 model years. Confirm your car uses this multi-link rear axle before ordering, since the alternative rear suspension fitted to some Octavias in this range takes different hardware.

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Ride height and damping are set at the strut on this kit, so pick the Octavia’s exact spec and configure yours below.