XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz CLS C218 8 CYL (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2011-2018

The C218 CLS’s V8 sits nose-forward over a chassis that Mercedes tuned around adaptive Airmatic and electronic damping rather than a fixed spring rate, which is exactly the problem for anyone trying to lower the car or firm up its body control. Fitting a coilover to this platform means dealing with that electronic damping architecture directly rather than working around it. The Street Advanced kit is built for that job: enthusiast road use with track day duty when you want it, without asking you to strip out the systems the car was engineered with.

For a big four-door V8 coupe that’s more often driven fast between cities than lapped every weekend, the priority is control that doesn’t wreck the ride the CLS was designed to deliver. Street Advanced gives the C218 owner a coilover that can be firmed up for a spirited B-road or a track day, then wound back for the next motorway run home.

What this coilover does for your 2011-2018 Mercedes Benz CLS

Swapping in the Street Advanced kit drops the CLS’s centre of gravity and gets the sizeable V8 mass under control through direction changes, where the standard air suspension’s softness lets the nose dive and squat more than a car this fast should allow. The 720-way damping adjustment means you can tune compression and rebound independently of ride height, so you can carry more front-end support for quick direction changes without turning the ride harsh over the motorway expansion joints this car still has to cover. Because the kit is built around a cancellation solution for the CLS’s electronic damping control, you’re not left with dashboard warning lights or a disabled comfort system after the swap – the car’s own electronics stay quiet while the coilover does the damping work. Lowering the ride height also tightens the wheel gap that the factory air setup leaves for load-levelling headroom, sharpening the visual stance to match the sedan-coupe’s silhouette.

About the Street Advanced coilover

XYZ Racing built Street Advanced as its most widely fitted kit, developed over years by the in-house engineering team and validated through racing programmes run worldwide before it reached production spec. It’s positioned deliberately between daily comfort and outright track capability, aimed at drivers who want one set of coilovers to cover normal road use and the odd track day rather than running two setups. The headline figure is 720 damping adjustment positions, giving a genuinely fine-grained window between plush and firm rather than a handful of coarse clicks. For a CLS specifically, that adjustment range matters because the kit has to answer for the ride quality the factory air system provided while still delivering the body control a V8 needs when it’s driven properly. XYZ frames it as core equipment for drivers chasing both speed and control, and on this chassis that means giving the C218 the sharper front-end response its factory setup was never tuned to provide.

Fitment for the Mercedes Benz CLS C218 (2011-2018)

This kit is built for the Mercedes Benz CLS C218 8-cylinder, chassis code ME20-2-C, covering the 2011 to 2018 production run. It’s specified as the cancellation-kit variant for cars fitted with electronic damping control, so it replaces that system’s function rather than running alongside it. Confirm your CLS is the 8-cylinder C218 variant with factory electronic damping before ordering, since the standard-damping and other-cylinder variants use different kits.

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