XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz CL C216 2006-2014

The C216 CL is a two-tonne grand tourer that left Sindelfingen riding on AIRMATIC air struts and ABC hydraulics – both brilliant when new, both ruinously expensive when the bladders split or the pump starts weeping at 80,000 miles. For most C216 owners in 2026, the question is no longer whether to renew the factory air or hydraulics, but what to replace them with. A coilover conversion is the answer that keeps a CL500 or CL63 on the road without a four-figure dealer bill every time a strut sighs.

XYZ Racing’s Super Sport kit is built around that brief. It swaps the failure-prone OE setup for a fully adjustable coilover that holds the car’s ride height where you set it and gives the chassis the body control its 5.5-litre V8 (or twin-turbo M275 V12) always deserved.

What this coilover does for your 2006-2014 Mercedes Benz CL C216

A C216 on tired AIRMATIC wallows under power and squats over crests; with the Super Sport fitted, the car finally feels like it weighs what it does, rather than fighting itself through every transition. The 30-step damping range lets you set the front softer for motorway cruising and stiffen the rear to stop the back end pogoing under hard acceleration in a CL63. Ride height is independently adjustable at each corner via the threaded lower mount, which matters on a long-wheelbase coupe where panel gaps and arch-fill are the first thing the eye registers. Brake-dive is sharply reduced, turn-in becomes deliberate rather than vague, and the standing-still problem – a CL sat on dead air bags – simply goes away.

About the Super Sport coilover

Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s fast-road specification. Each damper uses a 52mm monotube body with separate compression and rebound circuits, running on hardened piston rods and pillowball top mounts where the chassis design allows. Spring rates are matched to the C216’s kerb weight and weight distribution rather than pulled from a generic catalogue, and the 30-click adjuster sits at the top of the strut for easy reach without removing trim. The kit is designed to install in the factory mounting points with no chassis modification, replacing the AIRMATIC or ABC components as a complete corner assembly. Build quality runs to anodised collars, T304 stainless brackets and a rebuildable design that means a damper can be serviced rather than scrapped when oil eventually fades.

Fitment for the Mercedes Benz CL C216 (2006-2014)

This kit fits the C216 generation CL coupe across the full 2006-2014 production run, covering CL500, CL550, CL600, CL63 AMG and CL65 AMG variants on the standard chassis. Cars originally fitted with Active Body Control may require the ABC-specific variant of this kit – confirm your VIN’s original suspension code before ordering.

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Pick your spring rate, damping preference and ride height in the configurator below, then build the exact spec for your C216.