XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Volvo V40 2013-2019

The V40’s factory suspension has always prioritised Scandinavian motorway refinement over driver involvement – sensible for the commute, less so when the turbocharged T4 or T5 is making the front axle work hard through a sequence of fast bends. Underneath the soft spring rates and loose body roll sits a genuine multi-link rear platform that responds well to firmer calibration.

The Street Advanced coilover addresses this directly: a premium compact with sound bones and a conservative factory tune, whose owner wants sharper responses and a lower stance without surrendering the refinement that made the V40 worth buying.

What this coilover does for your 2013-2019 Volvo V40

Reducing body roll transforms how the V40’s front-wheel-drive chassis distributes lateral load through corners – the nose stops pushing wide and the car communicates more clearly through the wheel. Height adjustment allows the kind of stance Volvo’s factory engineers never sanctioned. The 720-way damping adjustment is where the Street Advanced earns its keep on UK roads: run a supple setting for daily motorway use, stiffen up for a track day at Oulton or Anglesey, and return to road spec without removing the kit. The multi-link rear responds noticeably to firmer rear damping – mid-corner stability improves without the jarring secondary ride that a fixed-rate drop spring delivers to potholed British A-roads.

About the Street Advanced coilover

The Street Advanced is XYZ Racing’s most widely specified product in their road car catalogue, developed over several years by the XYZ professional engineering team and refined through testing in competitive racing environments worldwide before reaching production. It is built for normal road use with the capability to handle track day sessions without being a poor compromise at either end of that spectrum. The 720-way damping adjustment is the headline specification: it represents an unusually fine gradation of tuning that lets the driver move through compression and rebound settings incrementally, rather than jumping between a handful of coarse positions. Spring platform and ride height are set independently, so the stance and the spring rate can each be calibrated separately to the driver’s preference.

Fitment for the Volvo V40 (2013-2019)

This kit covers the Volvo V40 second-generation platform, chassis code VL08, across the full 2013-2019 production run. It fits the standard V40 hatchback across the petrol and diesel engine variants produced during that period. Owners of the V40 Cross Country should confirm fitment against their variant’s raised ride height baseline before ordering, as the lowering range will differ from the standard suspension starting point.

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Configure yours below – select your preferred spring rate and confirm your exact trim to complete the build.