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The brakes have done the noise for a few months now but only had that incident in Scotland a few days ago but I suppose it was winter when I got the car so it's probably picked up a lot of grit by now. Ah, sorry my mistake, I meant the pads. Well it'll be going in the garage tomorrow with a bit of luck. Thought I was going to have to get the pads changed. Thanks for explaining it to me.

Hi, I have an 09 MkII Fabia that's done 62,000 miles. OK I'll have a look at those drum threads. The Octavia pads thing is something I've read elsewhere on here. I don't know cars that well yet (haven't been driving that long) so I have no idea, I'm still learning. I haven't had the front brakes serviced although had a garage look at the back drums a month ago which cured the sticking for a bit but it's returned now. The front brakes which is what I'm most concerned about haven't been looked at though, all I've done is literally blast the discs with the jet wash to get the grit and snow off them. This is what I read on another thread about them, maybe I'm getting my wires crossed somewhere - This is the thread here -

My car has pretty much had issues with the brakes since I bought it in November, although it passed an MOT at the same time so mustn't have been anything up with it them. The handbrake sticks on the back brake (drums) when it's left for any amount of time parked up, especially over night. They unstick as you move off. The other more interesting one is the front disc brakes. They do this awful dull whining, seems to be worse when cold and sounds a bit like metal rubbing on metal to me, I'll try to add a clip of the sound if I can some time. They've done this for a bit now, I've read on here about the factory fitted discs being crap and think I saw somewhere about replacing them for octavia ones too? Then recently went on a trip to Scotland (so from near Manchester to southern Scotland and back). On the way there it was snowing heavily and at a roundabout came to brake and the wheels locked, brakes felt spongy and abs light came on. It seemed fine straight after got out of that and took it a car wash and blasted a load of grit off the discs. The abs light has been on and off since then though. Went off over night, then went over a bump in the road and back on... The brakes haven't felt as responsive since either so somethings off with them. I'm running it to the garage tomorrow but wondered what you guys think?

Hi, I have a 09 Fabia MkII hatchback that I've had now since November. It's the first car I've brought myself having passed a while ago and starting as a named driver on a 1999 Proton persona then driven a Volvo v40 estate and a 04 Skoda Fabia estate. I was impressed by the estate but fancied a hatchback, the estate was great but didn't really suit me at 25 so I eventually bought my own car and got the newer shaped hatchback. So far it's been a great car but has had a few issues with the breaks. I'm taking it to the garage in a few days to have a look at them but wondered about peoples opinion here, I'll be doing a separate thread about them. Also had issues changing the Dance radio to the Amundsen radio (not the +) but pretty much given up on that now and put in a Pioneer. I've lurked on here for months but thought I'd join at last as almost always when I type something into Google about the car it directs me here. Thanks