XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Aston Martin RAPIDE S (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2013-2026

The Rapide S’s Adaptive Damping System was engineered for seamless GT touring, not staged tarmac competition. Running this V12 four-door through a rally stage means confronting what that ADS was never designed to survive: repeated hard landings off crests, aggressive kerb strikes on narrow tarmac roads, and sustained suspension loading that factory adaptive software wasn’t calibrated to handle. This kit pairs a stage-specific damper with the cancellation hardware the Rapide S’s ECU demands – removing the adaptive system cleanly and replacing it with a unit built around the measured loads of sealed-surface stage work.

Aston Martin’s VH platform, the bonded aluminium architecture beneath the Rapide S, is stiffer than the long-wheelbase GT stereotype implies. Weight distribution hovers closer to 50/50 than the nose-heavy reputation of comparable four-door grand tourers, and that balance is a genuine asset in tarmac competition – a 2,000 kg car with predictable weight transfer is more consistent to drive at the limit than a lighter car with a compromised or unknown damping curve.

What this coilover does for your 2013-2026 Aston Martin Rapide S

With the factory ADS removed, the Tarmac Rally unit delivers a fixed, known damping response – no mode-hunting, no mid-corner software intervention between settings. Tyre contact improves on the uneven sealed surfaces that characterise closed-road stages, where an adaptive system would chase its own calibration targets through every crest and dip. The damper’s ability to suppress secondary body oscillation after large compressions keeps the Rapide S’s considerable sprung mass planted rather than floating, and that predictability under hard braking into hairpins translates directly into confidence on the trailing edge of the brake zone. Vehicle stability across repeated hard stage kilometres is the result of a damper tune that doesn’t hedge.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

Drawn from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally programme, the Tarmac Rally coilover is built for the sharp, high-frequency inputs of sealed stage roads – the jarring impacts over crests, broken asphalt compressions, and aggressive kerbs that would overload a standard GT damper in a single stage. Construction targets the specific load characteristics of tarmac rally use rather than the longer-travel, softer demands of gravel: the focus is effective absorption of big bumps while actively suppressing the body movement that costs traction. The settings in this unit aren’t theoretical – they reflect what XYZ’s competition experience has validated under the conditions this damper is intended for. Tyre traction under load and vehicle stability through fast, committed sections are the measurable outcomes of that development work.

Fitment for the Aston Martin Rapide S (2013-2026)

This kit is specified to chassis code AS01-C, covering the Aston Martin Rapide S across the 2013-2026 production window. The Cancellation Kit element of this build is integral, not optional: the Rapide S leaves the factory with Adaptive Damping System hardware that continuously signals the ECU, and running aftermarket suspension without the cancellation kit produces persistent fault codes, warning lights, and unreliable system behaviour that would compromise both competition use and daily operation. Confirm that your car is fitted with the standard ADS before ordering; Rapide S variants without adaptive damping require a different specification.

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