XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Volkswagen GOLF MK7 φ50 (Rear Twist-Beam Suspension) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2012-2020

The Golf Mk7’s torsion-beam rear axle asks a lot of a single damper: it locates the wheel, resists toe change under load, and has to do it all without the multi-link geometry a Golf R or GTI Performance driver might assume is back there. XYZ Racing’s Street Advanced kit is built to take charge of that axle, with a phi50 monotube body sized for the Mk7’s rear architecture and a cancellation kit that removes the factory electronic damping module from the equation entirely.

For a Golf Mk7 owner who splits time between the daily commute and the odd track day, Street Advanced is the middle ground: not a soft ride-comfort set, not a stripped-out circuit special, but a coilover built to let you set the car up properly for whichever one you’re doing that weekend.

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

720 damping adjustment ways is the headline number here, and on a torsion-beam car it matters more than usual – because the rear axle can’t independently manage each wheel’s geometry, damping control is doing a bigger share of the work in keeping the rear planted through a direction change. Wind more compression in and the Mk7 resists the head-toss over compressions that a soft factory setup lets through; back it off and the ride stays liveable on UK B-roads. The cancellation kit means you’re not fighting the car’s adaptive damping electronics for control – this coilover is the sole damping authority front and rear, with no fault codes or dashboard warnings from a disconnected DCC system. Lowering the centre of gravity through the coilover’s ride-height adjustment also sharpens turn-in response, which is where a Mk7 on a torsion beam most benefits from stiffer, better-controlled rear damping.

About the Street Advanced coilover

XYZ Racing developed Street Advanced over several years as its most widely fitted product, refined through testing in races run worldwide by XYZ-backed teams before being brought to this specification for road and track-day use. Each unit uses monotube construction and offers 720 distinct damping settings, giving a far finer adjustment window than the handful of stages a stock adaptive system provides. The intent is a single coilover that covers ordinary road use and occasional circuit sessions without needing a second, track-only set – hence the name. For drivers chasing more precise control over how their car responds under load, this is the type built specifically to deliver that range in one product, rather than compromising toward either extreme.

Fitment for the Volkswagen GOLF MK7 (2012-2020)

This kit is built for the Golf Mk7 with the phi50 rear torsion-beam suspension layout, chassis code VO20-6-C, covering the full 2012-2020 production run. The cancellation kit variant is specified where the car’s electronic damping control (DCC) needs to be removed from the circuit so this coilover’s own damping adjustment takes over completely.

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Pick your damping setting and ride height to suit how you actually drive the Mk7 – configure yours below.