Does anyone else have this problem or know the cause? Had the same on my old Roomster and no, I do not do rally driving on mountain trails or drive along shingle beaches. Would rather have had drum brakes on the back but not possible on the model I chose.

Lots of people do with all different sorts of Skoda & VW Group Models and they just drive public highways like you do.

Its just the design and the materials and a sad state of affairs.

Discs now last less miles than pads do.

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/407627-rear-disc-brake-wear

Thanks for reply, car is still under warranty so I will tell the dealer next time it goes in for service and see what reaction I get.

The Dealers have Demonstrators sitting for 3 months / 3,000 miles getting washed and unless a Salesperson is using them they need taken out for an Italian Tune Up of the discs or they are covered in cosmetic corrosion and worse, often scored before sold as 'Management Cars', 

then they have Used Cars and Trade ins and purchases from Auction, 

they know exactly the story, unless Deaf & Blind.

 

So you are telling them nothing they are not aware of if they are interested in cars.

Obviously not all are bad, but just go look around their outside sales and compound you will see plenty nearly new cars with scored discs.

Yup, the ways things are with "German" cars - or maybe European cars, if you are old enough to be getting handed out money that you put into a pension fund, you would know that there was a point in time in our UK driving world were brake discs were like brake drums, ie for the life of the car (maybe) and you just needed to replace the pads now and again. Then along came these crafty Jerries with their strange cars, and guess what, it was said that you might need to replace the discs when you replaced every second set of pads - how weird it sounded, but it has become the norm.  My old 1991 VX Cav GSI 2000 4X4 never ever needed new discs, only ever a couple of pad changes (in time to save the wear indicators) over 90K miles 9 years. Then I went proper German, and it has become second nature to need to change discs quite frequently, well that is a relative term.

Its because they had to take Asbestos out of the brake pads for health reasons. 

 

So the pads are made of harder material, so the discs wear faster.

That was 17 years ago and until 2004 for cars built before 1973.

 

Lots and lots of brake discs that have been OEM fitment in the past 17 years last for 2,3 or 4 times longer than the brake pads do.

Some even last, stop the vehicle OK and are not a rusty edged or even a braking surface mess.

 

Not only OEM Discs as fitted by the VWG can be an issue, look at the state of brake calipers on many models, 

even those in the £30,000 plus price bracket. 

Many Audi S-Line models are as bad as those on sub £15,000 VW Group Models.

Edited 8 August, 20169 yr by GoneOffSKi

Its because they had to take Asbestos out of the brake pads for health reasons. 

 

So the pads are made of harder material, so the discs wear faster.

 

That tends to be the answer for all brake issues nowadays, just think, in the future it will change to being Brexit, its all happened since Brexit, I remember when, in a time before Brexit, blah blah blah ----.