XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — BMW 3 SERIES F80 M3 (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2014-2018

The F80 M3’s factory Adaptive M suspension is clever, but it’s also the thing standing between you and a car that actually feels planted on a UK B-road. Strip the EDC out, fit a proper mechanical coilover, and the S55-powered saloon stops second-guessing itself mid-corner. That’s what this Super Sport kit is for.

The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover for the F80 M3 ships with the electronic damping cancellation kit, so the dash stays clean and the ECU stops looking for sensors that are no longer there. It’s the right choice for owners running fast-road duties through the week with the occasional weekend track outing – a brisk Cadwell or Castle Combe day without rebuilding the car on Sunday night.

What this coilover does for your 2014-2018 Bmw 3 Series F80 M3

The F80 carries its 425bhp on a chassis that’s always been quick but never quite settled – the twin-turbo S55 piles torque in, the rear squats, and the front goes light over crests. A monotube damper with 36-way bump-and-rebound adjustment lets you actually control that weight transfer instead of letting the factory EDC guess at it. Drop the nose 25-30mm and the M3 stops looking like it’s tiptoeing on its run-flats; it sits.

On the road you get a firmer initial response without the brittle, juddery secondary ride that ruins a fast B-road. On track the same kit holds the platform flat under threshold braking into a hairpin, where the standard car would dive and unload the inside rear. Steering weight off-centre sharpens noticeably once the front end stops floating.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport sits in XYZ Racing’s road-and-track band. It’s a height-adjustable monotube with 36 clicks of damping adjustment on a single knob, tuned to take the harshness out of broken tarmac while keeping body control honest when you lean on it. The valving is set up to absorb bumps and rough surfaces rather than crash through them, which is the difference between a coilover you can live with on a Monday commute and one that drives you back to standard inside a fortnight.

XYZ position the Super Sport for both weekend racing and daily use – the same damper handling a school run on Wednesday and a 20-minute track session on Sunday. Ride height adjusts independently of spring preload, so you set the stance and corner-weight separately. Bundled with this fitment is the cancellation module that suppresses the F80’s EDC error codes once the factory adaptive dampers are removed.

Fitment for the Bmw 3 Series F80 M3 (2014-2018)

Engineered specifically for the F80 M3 saloon chassis (2014-2018, S55 twin-turbo straight six). This kit includes the electronic damping cancellation module required when replacing the factory Adaptive M dampers – without it the F80’s dash throws suspension fault codes.

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Pick your spring rates and damping spec for the F80 in the configurator below.