XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Volkswagen GOLF MK7 GTI φ55 (Modified Rear Integrated) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2013-2020

The Mk7 Golf GTI left the factory with Volkswagen’s Dynamic Chassis Control wired into the front and rear dampers, so fitting a fixed-valve coilover means dealing with an ECU that still expects to talk to an electronic damper. This XYZ Racing Super Sport kit for the GTI’s φ55-strut front end and modified, integrated multi-link rear axle includes the cancellation kit needed to remove that DCC wiring from the equation, rather than leaving a warning light on the dash every time the engine starts.

Super Sport is the fast-road and weekend track-day spec in the XYZ Racing range, sat between the comfort-biased daily damper and full race hardware. On the GTI’s nose-heavy, front-driven MQB platform, that split matters: the car needs to turn in flatter under load without turning the B-road home into a chore.

What this coilover does for your 2013-2020 Volkswagen Golf Mk7 GTI

Thirty-six damping positions let you wind the rear up firm enough to control the multi-link axle’s movement through hard cornering, or back it off for the motorway commute, without needing DCC’s software to make that call for you. Ride height adjusts independently front and rear, so you can drop the GTI’s stance without fighting the geometry changes that a front-driven MQB car punishes if you get it wrong. The EA888’s torque steer under full-throttle exits is easier to manage once the front axle isn’t loading and unloading through soft factory bushes and a compressed, oversprung stock spring. Because this kit replaces DCC outright rather than running alongside it, there’s no adaptive-damper fault code to clear every time the ride height gets changed.

About the Super Sport coilover

XYZ Racing’s Super Sport damper is built to take the harshness out of B-roads and motorway expansion joints without falling back to a soft, wallowy factory-comfort tune. Each damper carries 36-way adjustment, wide enough to move from a supple daily setting to a firmer track-day valving without swapping parts. Ride height adjusts independently of that damping curve through a threaded body rather than spring-perch guesswork, so corner weights can actually be set once the car’s on the ground. The construction is aimed at drivers who want one set of dampers to cover both the commute and a weekend on circuit, rather than running two cars or two sets of coilovers. On a chassis like the GTI’s, where ride quality and body control usually get presented as a trade-off, that dual-use tuning is the entire point of the Super Sport line.

Fitment for the Volkswagen Golf Mk7 GTI (2013-2020)

This kit is built for the Mk7 Golf GTI, chassis code VO20-8-C, across the 2013 to 2020 production run fitted with the φ55 front strut and the modified, integrated multi-link rear axle. It’s specified as the cancellation-kit variant, replacing the factory Dynamic Chassis Control dampers rather than retrofitting alongside them. Confirm your GTI carries the DCC-equipped multi-link rear before ordering, since standard twist-beam Golf variants use a different rear mounting.

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Pick your Super Sport spec for the Mk7 GTI below and confirm the cancellation-kit fitment for your exact build.