XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Kia PRIDE 1.5 VGT 2005-2011

The Kia Pride 1.5 VGT is a featherweight diesel hatch with a soft factory ride that washes wide the moment you ask anything of the front axle, and its short wheelbase means body movement arrives early and stays late. The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover targets exactly that: a fast-road kit with 36-way damping and ride-height adjustment that lets a Pride owner settle the chassis without turning a daily runabout into something punishing on a B-road.

For a 2005-2011 Pride VGT used as a weekend toy with the odd track day thrown in, the Super Sport sits in the right place on the XYZ ladder – more capability than a base sport coilover, none of the firmness penalty of the circuit-focused kits.

What this coilover does for your 2005-2011 Kia Pride 1.5 VGT

Dropping the ride height pulls the centre of gravity down and shrinks the wheel-arch gap that the standard Pride wears like a 4×4. The 36-way damping range is the real working tool here: wind the clicks out for broken urban tarmac and the kit absorbs expansion joints without crashing through, then wind them in for a smoother A-road and the nose stops diving on turn-in. You feel the front end load more progressively under braking, and mid-corner the car stops leaning onto its outside front tyre the way the OEM dampers allow. For a light car like the Pride, that translates directly into a steering response that finally matches the chassis’ size.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s dual-purpose damper – engineered to be liveable on broken road surfaces while still holding up to weekend track use. The single 36-way knob per damper governs combined bump and rebound, so dial-in is quick: a few clicks softer for daily commuting, a few clicks firmer when the road opens up or the weather dries out. Ride-height adjustment is independent of spring preload, which means you set stance without changing how the spring loads the damper. The vendor’s own engineering brief flags this kit as suitable for both weekend race and daily use, and that brief matches how the Super Sport sits in the XYZ catalogue – one step up from the entry sport kit, calibrated for owners who want a single coilover that does both jobs honestly.

Fitment for the Kia Pride (2005-2011)

This kit is built for the VGT chassis code Pride 1.5 VGT, model years 2005 to 2011. Confirm your build year against your V5 before ordering, and use the configurator below to set spring rate and any extra options for your spec.

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Pick your spring rate and spec for the Pride VGT in the configurator below and build the kit for how you actually drive the car.