XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — BMW 2 SERIES F45/F46 (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2014-2026

The F45/F46 is the awkward middle child of the 2 Series family – a front-drive (or xDrive) MPV riding on the UKL2 platform that shares more with a MINI Countryman than with an M2. That heritage shows up in the way the standard car rolls onto its outside-front corner mid-bend, and the optional Dynamic Damper Control system papers over it with electronic trickery rather than fixing the geometry. For owners who have decided the factory adaptive setup is the wrong tool – either because the modules have failed out of warranty, or because the active dampers refuse to play with anything stiffer than OEM – this is the route out.

The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover for the Bmw 2 Series F45/F46 ships with the cancellation kit needed to retire the electronic damping circuit cleanly, so the suspension ECU stops throwing faults the moment the OEM struts come off. What you get back is a properly mechanical car: 36-way damping you set with a click-wheel, ride height you wind in with a spanner, and a chassis that finally responds to the spring rate you ask of it.

What this coilover kit does for your 2014-2026 Bmw 2 Series F45/F46

Swap onto the Super Sport and the F45/F46 stops behaving like a tall hatchback pretending to be a sports tourer. Wind the ride height down 25-30mm and the centre of gravity drops below the standard car’s roll axis, which is where most of the body lean was coming from in the first place. The 36-way damping range is wide enough that you can run a compliant setting for the school run during the week and click it stiffer on Saturday morning without touching a tool. Turn-in sharpens noticeably because the outside front no longer collapses onto its bump-stop under load, and the rear stays planted through camber changes the OEM dampers used to float over. Brake dive is reduced, which matters on a nose-heavy front-driver where weight transfer dictates how much front grip you actually have on corner entry.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s fast-road-with-track-weekend damper, sitting in the middle of the catalogue between the daily-biased entry kits and the Circuit Master / Top Sport competition setups. Construction is twin-tube with adjustable shock body length, separating ride-height adjustment from spring preload so you can drop the car without running out of suspension travel. The 36-way dampening adjustment governs both compression and rebound on a single knob per corner – one click for daily comfort, six clicks for a B-road, somewhere past twelve for a circuit. XYZ pitch the Super Sport as a damper that has eliminated the discomfort that comes from running bumps or broken tarmac on a stiff setup, which is the usual reason fast-road buyers default to coilovers rather than lowering springs. Included in this part number is the cancellation harness for the F45/F46’s electronic damping system, which the buyer must have to fit a passive coilover without permanent dashboard fault lights.

Fitment for the Bmw 2 Series F45/F46 (2014-2026)

Chassis code BM119-C, covering Active Tourer (F45) and Gran Tourer (F46) variants from 2014 through to the end of the run in 2026. This SKU is the version specifically built for cars optioned from new with electronic damper control – the kit includes the cancellation hardware required to bypass that circuit. Standard non-EDC F45/F46 cars take a different XYZ part number, so confirm your build sheet before ordering.

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