XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Volkswagen GOLF MK7 φ50 (Rear Multi-Link Suspension) Modified Rear Integrated (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2012-2020

The Mk7 Golf’s rear multi-link axle is the one area where the factory setup shows its age fastest under repeated load – soft bushings and compliant geometry that were tuned for ride comfort, not direction changes at speed. This Street Advanced kit is built specifically around the φ50 strut architecture and rear integration points on this chassis, including the cancellation kit needed where the car left the factory with electronic damping control.

Street Advanced sits between fast-road comfort and proper track capability, which is exactly the brief for a Golf that gets driven daily and booked onto a circuit a few times a year. It’s not a single-rate compromise – it’s a kit built to be adjusted as your use of the car changes.

What this coilover does for your 2012-2020 Volkswagen GOLF MK7

With 720 damping adjustment steps on tap, you can run the front end noticeably firmer for track sessions – sharpening turn-in and cutting the nose-dive that the stock Golf struggles with under hard braking into a corner – then back the rear off for the school run without touching a spanner. The wider damping window also does real work on the Mk7’s rear multi-link axle specifically: more control over rebound settles the rear under trail-braking, where the standard dampers let the axle move around and unsettle the car mid-corner. Ride height is adjustable independently of spring preload, so you can drop the Golf’s stance without stacking preload into the springs and ruining the initial compliance that keeps the car liveable on UK B-roads. Because the kit is built for this chassis’s electronic damping cancellation point, there’s no dashboard fault or mismatched signal to work around once it’s fitted – the car simply runs on the new hardware.

About the Street Advanced coilover

XYZ Racing developed Street Advanced as its most broadly applicable coilover, refined over successive seasons of racing before the tuning found its way into a road-going product. The line has been run competitively by teams worldwide, and that mileage is where the 720-way damping curve comes from – it wasn’t picked for a spec sheet, it was picked because it covers everything from a wet motorway commute to a dry, fast circuit lap without needing a different set of dampers for each. The construction is built to take the two-knob (or dial-through) adjustment without the damping force becoming vague or inconsistent at either extreme of the range, which is the usual failure point of budget adjustable kits. For drivers who want one coilover that does normal road duty and still holds up when the car goes on a trailer to a track day, this is the type XYZ built for exactly that split.

Fitment for the Volkswagen GOLF MK7 (2012-2020)

This kit is engineered for the Mk7 Golf’s φ50 strut diameter and rear multi-link suspension layout, model years 2012 to 2020, and is specified as the "Modified Rr Integrated" fitment with the cancellation kit for cars built with electronic damping control. Confirm your Golf uses this rear suspension configuration and factory electronic damping before ordering, since the cancellation kit is matched to that specific setup rather than a standard passive rear end.

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Configure your Street Advanced spec for the Mk7 Golf below and set the damping range to match how you actually drive the car.