XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Ford CONTOUR 1997-2000

The Contour rode on Ford’s CDW27 world-car platform – the same architecture beneath the European Mk2 Mondeo – so it carries a nose-heavy front-drive layout that washes wide into understeer the moment you lean on it mid-corner. Two and a half decades on, the factory dampers in nearly every surviving car are long past their best, leaving a floaty front end and a body that never quite settles.

Aimed at fast-road and weekend track use, the XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover for the Ford Contour 1997-2000 gives you height and damping control the standard struts never offered. It tightens the body movements that make a tired Contour feel vague, without turning a daily-driven saloon into something punishing.

What these coilovers do for your 1997-2000 Ford Contour

On the road you feel the front end stop diving under braking and load up more progressively as you turn in, which is exactly what the SVT crowd have always chased from this chassis. The 36-way damping adjustment lets you run a softer setting for broken UK back roads and firm things up for a track day with nothing more than a turn of the adjuster. Lowering the ride height drops the centre of gravity and sharpens turn-in, trimming the lazy understeer the front-wheel-drive Contour leans on from the factory. Because height and damping are set independently, you can match the car to your tyres, your roads and your own pace.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport sits in XYZ Racing’s range as the road-biased option that still copes with occasional circuit work. Its headline feature is 36-way damping adjustment, a single knob per corner that moves you across a wide band from supple to firm, so the car can be tuned for rough surfaces or smooth ones rather than locked to a single setting. Ride height is adjustable too, letting you pick a stance and a roll centre that suit how you actually drive. XYZ built this damper specifically to take the harshness out of bumps and poor surfaces while still controlling body movement when you push on – the reason it reads equally as a comfortable daily companion and a weekend track tool. For a Contour owner who wants a real handling lift without the stiffness of a dedicated competition setup, it is the sensible pick.

Fitment for the Ford Contour (1997-2000)

This kit is mapped to the Ford Contour built between 1997 and 2000, carried under XYZ Racing’s FO02 fitment code. It covers the late-run cars on the CDW27 platform across the model’s final production years. Confirm your exact build year in the configurator before ordering so the correct strut and spring set is matched to your car.

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Set your ride height and damping preference for the Ford Contour and check the full spec below, then configure yours to order.