XYZ Racing Pro Racing Gravel/Snow Coilovers — Honda CRV IV 2012-2016

The Honda CR-V IV leaves the factory tuned for motorway calm: tall ride height, soft springs, and damping that lets the body lean and float long before the tyres run out of grip. On gravel, snow, or a rutted forest stage that softness becomes a liability, and the standard struts have neither the travel nor the oil capacity to take repeated heavy hits. This is where the XYZ Racing Pro Racing Gravel/Snow coilover earns its place.

Built around longer-travel dampers front and rear, this coilover is aimed squarely at loose-surface work – rally and rallycross use where a tall crossover like the CRV IV has to soak up landings and mid-corner bumps without bottoming out or pitching the nose. It keeps a high-riding, nose-heavy Honda settled when the surface stops cooperating.

What this coilover does for your 2012-2016 Honda CRV IV

The extra suspension travel gives the CR-V more usable buffer distance over crests and compressions, so the wheels stay loaded instead of skipping across gravel. A larger volume of damper oil and nitrogen gas keeps the shock working consistently through a long stage, resisting the fade that sets in when fluid overheats after sustained hard use. Three adjustment knobs let you set the damper to suit the surface – softer and longer for rough gravel, firmer for hard-packed snow or tarmac link sections. On a 2012-2016 Honda CRV IV that normally rolls and wallows, the result is a flatter, more predictable platform with the ground clearance loose-surface driving demands.

About the Pro Racing Gravel/Snow coilover

The Pro Racing Gravel/Snow was developed primarily for rally racing and rallycross. Its defining feature is increased travel at both axles, which adds the buffer distance a car needs to stay stable when it is being thrown across uneven ground. To support that, the design carries an enlarged volume of shock oil and nitrogen gas – this raises the damper’s thermal stability and stops the oil from being cooked out after long, repeated punishment on a stage. Adjustment runs through three separate knobs, each feeding a small-orifice oil passage. One quirk follows from that design: over big impacts the oil is forced through the narrow passage and can produce a faint noise. That is normal behaviour for this type of long-travel damper and is not a fault. It is a coilover engineered for sustained abuse on loose surfaces, not for kerb-hopping a smooth car park.

Fitment for the Honda CRV IV (2012-2016)

This kit is built specifically for the fourth-generation Honda CR-V (chassis IV), covering the 2012 to 2016 model years. Confirm your registration date falls within that span before ordering, as the platform changed at the generation boundary.

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Set your travel and damping for the surface you run, then configure yours below.