I recently bought a new Fabia. Within the first few days I noticed a squeaking noise from the car when I was coming to a gentle stop in the car. I said it to the dealer and he checked the brakes and said it could have been a stone in it as he could not hear it. I gave it a few more days and again it happened a few more times. I called the dealer again and they took it in. They took it on a few test drives and nothing could be heard by them. They said it could be just the new brakes bedding in. That was two weeks ago and still I hear squeaking. It does not happen all the time. It's usually when the car has been going for a while and I am gently braking in traffic or coming to a complete stop. Tonight it happened while turning into a parking spot. It's loud enough to be heard while the radio is on.

Anyone any ideas what it could be.

Ask them which day Tommy is off and if you can put the car in then.

 

The Dealer Principal can maybe take your car home and give you his perk as a courtesy car until his fitters sort out your car.

The Superb probably has brakes that do not squeal.

This subject could do with a pinned thread starting as we are literally seeing at least one or two Fabia's a day with squeaky brakes.

They end fix tends to be new pads and or discs. Refacing the pads does nothing.

I can only assume that the pad material contains something very hard that can't be worn down against the discs (which end up scored of you leave it too long).

Edited 5 October, 20169 yr by James@RRGRochdale

I have a mark 2 fabia 1.6 tdi and i think the brakes are made of chocolate.

I bought the car at 10 months old and 5000 miles on the clock after one week I had the car back at the dealers as the discs were rusty.

I was told they would clean up with use. At 17500 miles on the clock I had to replace the disc brakes and pads on the front.

The technician tried to strip and clean the back brakes at the same time but they phoned saying these were needing replaced as these to were coroded beyond repair. So brand new brakes all round fast forward 18 month now on 42000 just been advised i need new front brake discs and front brake pads. The pads look like new the discs have been lipped. Do you guys think this is acceptable?

I've never had brake wear like this on any other car I've had. I was told I will need them replaced soon but what do I replace them with? Any ideas what brake discs and pads to use that will last a bit longer than the ones fitted by skoda?

I have a mark 2 fabia 1.6 tdi and i think the brakes are made of chocolate.

I bought the car at 10 months old and 5000 miles on the clock after one week I had the car back at the dealers as the discs were rusty.

I was told they would clean up with use. At 17500 miles on the clock I had to replace the disc brakes and pads on the front.

The technician tried to strip and clean the back brakes at the same time but they phoned saying these were needing replaced as these to were coroded beyond repair. So brand new brakes all round fast forward 18 month now on 42000 just been advised i need new front brake discs and front brake pads. The pads look like new the discs have been lipped. Do you guys think this is acceptable?

I've never had brake wear like this on any other car I've had. I was told I will need them replaced soon but what do I replace them with? Any ideas what brake discs and pads to use that will last a bit longer than the ones fitted by skoda?

My Mk2 Fabia Monte had pads at 45-50,000 miles its on 67,000 still on its orignal discs....

firefox2, 

Surely a location location location thing.

I bought a 2010 Demonstrator Fabia and the first service report for the Pre Sale had Scored Discs on it, and the Dealership did a Italian Tune Up on them, 

and when told to replace them before collection they skimmed them.

Since then i have fitted 3 new sets of discs and pads all around over the next 60,000 miles, & this is because the car sits around lots in Long Term car parks in Scotland for 3 weeks or so and gets used between October & March when there can be lots of salt / GRIT down on the roads.

And just to back that up, I used to own a VW Passat 4Motion and when the front discs were needing replaced I fitted ATE Power Discs, ie ellipticaly grooved discs, first set worked well, unfortnately fitting the second set coincided with me started to use the bus to get to work - using that car on a Friday only in winter totally trashed these discs in one winter!

 

I believe that there is a way round this problem, ie hose the brake areas well prior to parking the car, then dry these areas off using a hot air drier, ie a pet drier - seems like a good plan, but when I have worked hard getting my car back into my driveway in winter, I just don't want to need to do that! (sod that for fun)