Do the front and back break pads have wear sensors. The front pads are still fairly thick but the back ones seem very worn am taking the car to a garage on Friday for a proper check as the last thing I want is metal to metal contact.

The car past it’s first MOT in April with no advisory note about the pads. I have done 24k but it’s been mainly local journeys. Joe

No need for used brake pads with use to be an Advisory on a MOT test if the Brake Efficiency is correct and the discs and pads are not unsafe.

 

The car is due a Brake Fluid change if you did not have that done.

Getting a Service Pre Warranty Expiring is usually a good idea, & a MOT at a Non Main Dealerhip is 'Simply Clever', lets you get things picked up on that was maybe not 'flagged up' at a Main Dealer Service before the Warranty Expires, 

and brakes serviced before 3 years has passed is a good idea, maybe you have sticky rear calipers.

 

Have the wheels ever been off the car since it was built and left the factory?

My wife has roughly the same sort of car, a Polo 1.2TSI 110PS, August 2015, 23K miles, local and longer distance journeys, brakes no where near "needing replaced" stage yet, I tend to clean the brakes - wheels and pads out, every year, well with this car every time I've changed from winter to summer wheels except for the first year, just a quick brush off and spray with brake cleaner that time.  I'd hope that you will have had the first brake fluid change at your "year 3" minor service time, as an extra.

 

Note, while my wife's car has bigger front brakes than your car, it will still have the same rear brakes and if I can remember correctly, the friction material thickness on the rear pads is a lot less than on the fronts, makes sense as the fronts do most of the stopping.

 

Edit:- I took it as Joe was referring to the "normal" comments about friction material thickness that used to get made at MOT time, if the pads looked like more than a few weeks old.

 

Another Edit:- brake wear indicators, VW Group seem to have binned that idea for the rears, VW do use that on a front pad, though I don't know if Skoda do on the Fabia in UK market, sometimes it can be just as cheap to buy pad set with wear wiring and chop it off if not needed.

 

Final Edit:- on the subject of sticking rear callipers, as this tended to be a bit of an issue with earlier versions of Fabia/Polo/Ibiza, I added the usual extra external return springs to that car as soon as we got it, it did feel like TRW did increase the internal return springs a bit over earlier callipers, but I just wanted to knock that potential problem on the head before it struck - and it did strike on her previous 2002 Polo!

Edited 9 August, 20187 yr by rum4mo

The car was taken to the garage that used to service my old Fabia Estate. The brake fluid was changed and they also did the 3rd year service. I did ask them to do a safety check as well. This was done about 4 weeks before the warranty ran out. It could be the calipers are sticking but the rolling resistance is still very good. The car is booked in on Friday Joe

Sounds like you went to a non Skoda garage, so maybe you can’t answer my next question which is, are Skoda service people force feeding customers with data plugs, which it sounds like you must use - the VW app even comes with parking places locator etc - that didn’t do it for me, outside warranty that data plug dongle will get kept in a safe place which will not be plugged into that car.

 

Edit:- sorry I meant to include “like VW service areas are doing”.

Edited 9 August, 20187 yr by rum4mo

3 hours ago, rum4mo said:

Sounds like you went to a non Skoda garage, so maybe you can’t answer my next question which is, are Skoda service people force feeding customers with data plugs, which it sounds like you must use - the VW app even comes with parking places locator etc - that didn’t do it for me, outside warranty that data plug dongle will get kept in a safe place which will not be plugged into that car.

 

Edit:- sorry I meant to include “like VW service areas are doing”.

Hi rum4mo it was not a Skoda garage they did say they had to use a computer to make any necessary resets. I was left wondering if it was the first one they had worked on fortunately no warning lights came on the run home. I am going to a different garage for the brakes thats been recommended to me  Joe 

Are Skoda even doing the whole Data Plug thing?

Should not surprise us I suppose! This time no words were said, the data plug with its box and a sheet with instructions were just handed over, at last warranty work a notice was clipped over the interior mirror explaining that my dealership had got digital and "you must do blah blah", at service time/warranty revisit same thing plus this data plug.

 

This will just be VW Group hoping to harness the computing power of all their customers smart phones in a bid to save money??????(joke - probably).

Edited 10 August, 20187 yr by rum4mo