Hi have noticed some noise/judder/pedal feedback on the car when braking from motorway speed, but its ok when braking from say 50mph.

A colleague of mine today has had this problem on various BMW cars of his before and he puts it down to warped discs?

Any thoughts?

Car is 10 months old and done 9k miles.

Thanks

could be warped disks as you say or a damaged tyre with a bulge. Do you sit with your foot on the footbrake in traffic or at a standstill?

yeah i do sometimes, but only had the car 3 weeks!!!

Sounds like warped disks to me.

Hi have noticed some noise/judder/pedal feedback on the car when braking from motorway speed, but its ok when braking from say 50mph.

Does it do it if you just back of the throttle from motorway spped without braking? If it does it could be wheels need balancing. If it doesn't probably warped disc(s)

Warped discs are pretty much unheard of and IMHO it's a term many garages use for deposits of pad material on the disc surface. Obviously that doesn't net them much money, but new discs and pads does.

Best way to get rid of it is find an empty m/way or DC late at night and then do a series (10 ish) of 70 to 10mph slows (but not stop). Give it a couple of minutes to cool and repeat and give it a few more minutes to cool.

Hopefully the judder should be gone, but if not you can repeat a few more times.

If after a reasonable number of attempts the problem is still there then there may be other issues with the dics, but the pad deposits are a common one.

Good advice from Mark. I'd certainly give this a go first. I've done this in the past with good results, and when I carried out it with the Octy when I got it, noticed improved braking performance afterwards.

Steve

will try it out but booked in to be looked at now in a week or so as thats the earliest they had! also checking for any stutter issues re 26E6 map.

well the car has now been in twice with nothing really found.

that said the brake judder has got better with more miles now covered so perhaps any rust or build up has levelled out now. they did say the discs are a bit pitted but are only covered under warranty from 6 months from when the car was new? I bought the car when it was 10 months old so I dont get this, if they are not right and fir for purpose should they not be looked at/changed?

engine stutter - nothing found again, they could not replicate the problem, from warm or from cold. lots of things checked, no faults showing, all filters checked etc, reports back to Skoda and still nothing. Was chatting to someone who bought a same year same engine estate PD yesterday from the same dealer and explained what the car does and his does it too (his is a 08 and mine is a 58 plate).

any other ideas people?

cheers

Ryan

Was it Westover Skoda who done it? if so take it to another.

I can highly recommend Meadens Skoda of Sway

thanks, it was meadens anyway as although not the nearest dealer to me its where i bought the car from 6 weeks ago.

I had this and it turned out to be pad deposits on the discs. basically if you brake hard when the discs are hot, and come to a standstill with the brakes still on, it will leave a pad shaped residue on the discs causing vibration.

I got rid of it by doing a series of heavy braking. 4 stops from around 60mph to 5mph(make sure you keep rolling, and teo stops rom 100 to 5mph. and it cleared the residue off. you can cool the brakes in between still.

Sy