The car is a 62 plate with 2000 miles on and brake disc hubs have rusted already.

Or am I just being picky. It's on all four worse in some areas.

There have been a few threads on this over the years.

It seems to vary car by car, some think it depends on how long it's been sat in storage or on an airfield somewhere, or even worse at the salty dock side.

Dealers / Skoda UK are reluctant to consider it under warranty and in most cases it does get better as they get a covering of dirt / brake dust etc.

A few members on here have painted them too to offer them some additional protection and make them look less unsightly.

Steel rusts, and they all go like this eventually. Best thing to do, remove wheel and use a wire brush to remove the rust and then pain the hub with silver smooth Hammerite.

Happens on most cars. I rub mine down with wire wool and paint with silver hamerite.

Is it on all 4 wheels? looks like a dog's peed on it possibly? No rust like this on mine, though it's garaged and pampered, but guess I'll get some sooner or later. I see you're not that far from the sea- have you been to the coast when the wind was blowing and got salt on them do you think?

Do you use hand car washes? The acid they spray onto the wheels is pretty harsh and can cause this. It's a faf but you can take each wheel off and paint the discs to prevent further corrosion. Enamel paint works just fine and copes ok with the heat.

The car is a 62 plate with 2000 miles on and brake disc hubs have rusted already.

Or am I just being picky. It's on all four worse in some areas.

Is that the top of the disk that's corroding too? I've a 10 plate, 34,000 miles and my hubs are nowhere near that bad. They've started to rust but it's just a light, uniform browning and nothing to severe. Personally, I'd be taking that up with the dealer but I wouldn't be holding my breath!

Sarge.

Looks like it's rusting through some sirt of primer? Or is it reallly bare metal?

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The hubs and discs have a light covering of protective grease when new, but other than that they are unprotected.

I'd say yes you are.

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On my civic i painted the hubs with silver hammerite paint it looked great compared to the rusty orange colour.

I've just ordered new brakes from MTEC and these come Coated obviously the car doesn't need new brakes. But next sunny dry day get the car up and paint the hubs. Doesn't take long if you have proper jack and wrench.

The metal looks to have some sorted of blasted finish maybe this is the cause of premature corrosion as moisture would sit within the textured surface??

Edited 5 January, 201313 yr by Gregie

I changed the front discs on my Superb recently and the hub parts of the front discs are really rusty and it looks terrible. I'm going to get me some Hi temp enamel paint from 'Frauds and do them soon. Lets the car down when it's all nice and clean.

I don't think i'll bother painting the disc faces despite the light rust covering on them

Discs are cast iron; most importantly a very good material for friction and heat dissipation, and just incidentally really good for surface rust. But it's only superficial. The discs will wear down and need to be thrown away long before corrosion threatens the integrity of the hub.