Just a heads up really. I spoke to my dealer regarding this, as well as sending him a LOT of Briskoda links of people having the same issues. He raised this with Skoda Tech who had a possible cure. My dealer has ordered some parts and is going to book me in for it some time soon.

As soon as i know if this cures it and what they did i will update this thread. Heres hoping its a real fix!!

Do you do mainly short journeys Rich?

25 miles to work and back, so not short. It happens all the time too.

why would doing short journeys matter? :confused:

I know this is a Fabia thread but I just wondered. My wifes Polo seems to have this problem (and I've heard it once or twice on the Octavia) but a good run seems to cure the problem.

Move along now. There's nothing to see here...

Mines the same. Sometimes it does it, sometimes it doesn't.

Must be a woman!! ..you know! Moans and groans a lot, for no apparent reason.

Next doors Vaxhall Meriva does exactly the same too!

Well i guess it could be pad specific if it really is the brakes. Will find out for certain soon enough

my Octy vRS does this. Strange thing is I took my mate out in mine yesterday and he said his 944 turbo does exactly the same thing. I know the 924 was a joint venture till VAG pulled out, does the 944 have the same stoppers?

Do you know what this possible cure is?

Not yet mate, when it goes in ill find out, and as soon as that happens ill make sure you guys are the first to know.

I've been lucky, never happenned for me, but I do quite a few decent runs out in it, that car is well used

that car is well abused

:rubchin:

fixed?

fixed?

Seems a solution is out there (see this thread: http://www.briskoda.net/forums/t16861-update--noisy-fabia-rear-brakes-fix.html

just phone my local dealer (not where I bought the car from) and I told them what the problem was. They said it's because the pads are dirty and to clean them I would have to pay for that. :( I thought peugeot's service department was a rip off!

maybe they hadn't read about the fix then?

how much reversing do you do though? really I mean in a day? 10 metres? is it really a bad problem?

Regards,

When your heart jumps into your mouth because the sound is so loud, yes it's a bad problem!!

Yes of course its a bad problem. You reverse in the middle of town and nearly give the old lady living 4 miles away in her bungalow a heart attack. Its terrible, and very embarrasing when you have passengers.

I've had to resort to using my handbrake in reverse, (that seems to prevent it,) as the howl is so loud and very embarrasing...people turn 'round and look...you can almost hear them saying ..oh..it's a Skoda.

hopefelly I'll never get that then..

Regards,

Did the fix work?

J

I had this problem on my 03 Polo FSi Sport, a really loud groaning/squeaking noise in reverse, and also evident when the discs were hot and you were crusing through town traffic.

I replaced the rear discs (probably unneccesary, but at

I don't think vRS's spend much time on any forecourt!

I am no mechanic but I think the solution lies elsewhere.

Glazed pads aren't just caused by lask of use. Heavy braking when not giving them time to bed in is also a common cause. As well as too much light braking.

I know the VW Solution to this is to strip and rub down the pads, seems to work and the only reason I stopped them doing mine is because they wanted

I thought that the problem had something to do with the breaks resonating with something?

My Octy was doing it today!