Just wondered if anyone else had this problem

As I use the train to get to work the car gets used at weekends and roughly about once in the week. I am finding that the discs are getting quite a covering of rust between uses especially in the wet weather we are having up here. This then gets onto the pads and the brakes make a fairly bad grinding noise. This was never a problem on my old vRS.

It seems to be normal now for this to happen,even a few minutes after washing it there is a visible rust film there.

I did hear you should remove it by braking very gently only. at first ...as if you brake hard on it the rust impregmates the disk/pad surfaces and has an adverse aeffect on the future braking performance - maybe someone can confirm or deny this

marc

Rust on disks is fine.

You should try owning a triumph bonneville.

Notice this on my Fabia too. I usually try and do a gentlish stop from 30mph to clean them and then they're fine. Not noticed any problems performance-wise though so they still seem to work

Chris