The dealer just completed the 30000km service and advised

front brakes 10mm left

rear brakes 4mm left -need to be replaced next service

 

I have had Ford Focus prior and got 150000kms before fixing brakes.

Most of my driving is on active cruise control on motorways.

 

Do Skoda brakes only last 45000km?

Or is the dealer bull****ting?

Was that a drug dealer or someone at a Skoda Dealership like on the Service Desk & not the actual boss ?

 

Is that the pads?

In the UK they will often say 80% worn when not even 20% worn.

Not uncommon that the discs are more in need of changing rather than the pads as Skoda fit ones made of chocolate, or in the UK they go the same colour with corrosion even after washing the car.

 

They lie sadly,so people can not trust their garage, 

they try to up-sell, 

so maybe get the brakes inspected if you can not do it, and if they can not be trusted be sure to tell the Dealer Principal at the dealership they are conning you.

Edited 25 August, 20214 yr by e-Roottoot

That’s pretty much my thinking

Yes the Skoda dealer service adviser

 

I will get someone independent to check before next service which will be 12 months from now

Do the brake lights come on when the brakes on Active cruise control come on?

Does the braking during Active Cruise decrease brake life make more than say a conservative driver using moderate brake pressure?

 

In many cases you can roughly see them through gaps in alloy wheels, and if you can see more than a few mm of pad then long way from needing changing.

 

One dealer at 2 year service told me my front pads were 80% worn, different dealer at 3 year service told me 60% worn, so either my pads grew back 20% over 12 months or someone was lying.   

 

But on serious note, mileage is poor indicator of brake pad wear, someone living in a city with traffic lights every quarter mile, or in very hilly area will use brakes a lot, a motorway driver might only use brakes 2 or 3 times in 50 miles.

 

 

48 minutes ago, homai said:

Do the brake lights come on when the brakes on Active cruise control come on?

Does the braking during Active Cruise decrease brake life make more than say a conservative driver using moderate brake pressure?

Interesting questions, I don't know the answers.  So much depends on how the driver drives and what settings they put in to the ACC I guess.

 

Drivers vary so much in the way they drive that's why some wear out their tyres, brakes and clutches much sooner than average and some seem to make them last for ever.

 

I'd think (hope?) with man against computer braking in normal circumstances would be six of one and half a dozen of another.

 

The quality of materials in parts can vary from time to time even for the  car manufacturers, or thy certainly used to and parts quality more recently seems to vary in the stuff I buy even with known good brand names.

 

The Front Assist on my wife's Fabia a couple of times has jumped on the brakes as we've safely passed  a car turning off the road so two-nil to human against machine there.

 

Here is an example of how to wear out brakes and tyres quickly (lots of people do). Just up the road from me at the end of a straight are a set of traffic lights. From some distance away one can see what the traffic lights are doing and take appropriate action but time after time I observe folk rushing up to the lights and braking firmly  in the last 50 yards. BTW the "front assist" on my Fabia has never come on in six and a half years.

Edited 26 August, 20214 yr by Eccles
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5 minutes ago, Eccles said:

BTW the "front assist" on my Fabia has never come on in six and a half years.

How do you know it's working then!  

 

It is easy to confuse Automatic Braking warning and Unsmooth ( or Non fluid )driving warning