Walking past the car today I glanced at the front wheel and was surprised to see how bad the front discs were. The outer edge appears to have delaminated.

 

I don't know if this is through corrosion due to lack of contact with the pads or something else.

 

Ignore the surface rust, they do this everytime it rains if left overnight...

 

 

 

 

The rear discs seem to be in slightly better shape...

 

 

These are the original discs and pads on my 2011 CR140 manual Superb on 90,000 miles.

 

Annoyingly these are the discs on our 2008 PD140 Octavia which has done 60,000 miles. These too are the originals!

 

 

The Superb covers a mix of fast unclassified roads ,A roads and motorway so the brakes do get exercised a lot, still I am a little surprised they deteriorated so quickly.

 

Better get some ordered up. Any recommendations?

Ive had this before. Don't think it is a sign of them being unsafe, just corrosion from the elements, road salt etc. Give them a quick rattle round with a wire brush and they won't look so bad. I would be happy enough until they needed replaced due to thickness.

You're new higher profile tyres should keep them out of the road spray a bit more.

I'm not qualified mind, just my experience, so maybe best to get a more professional opinion :-)

They look rusty and grooved, may been Skoda are cutting costs on brake discs as seem to hear a lot more stories of shot brake discs recently with low mileage. I can recommend pagid discs as they have the same anti rust coat on them as the vw ones.

Surely they are at the end of their lives at 90k. Look like they have quite a lip on them that is rusting.

I would be pretty pleased to get to that sort of mileage in original discs.

I too have been reading up on the apparent low quality VAG discs, never really gave it much credit as the ones on our Octavia are original, 8 years old and still look like new.

 

Not so sure now though...

Blame the bean counters, in the old days spare wheels were standard and now it is optional. Cheaper quality discs can't been seen and can be easily passed off as wear and tear, as it not dangerous but they just wear out quicker. I changed my 06 Octy ones at 120k and they were certainty not that badly corroded as silvers discs.

The laminating outer rust is normal for a car of its age/mileage and the marks on the flat surface of the disc is I believe simply glazing (with a bit of light rust) due to light use and it's age. I used to get rid of the outer edge rust by simply tapping it with a light pin type hammer.

My wife's car had exactly the same problem many many years ago and an old "boy" mechanic told me a little trick, which I have used on several occasions since.

Simply find a quiet road and carry out lots of hard braking six or seven attempts works for me, which cleared the surface discs brilliantly.

Other may have a different opinion though the above was just my experience.

I did a couple of hard stops this morning, hopefully this has cleared them up a little.

 

When I swap back to the summer wheels in a month of two I'll probably give the outer edge a quick clean with the wire brush.