Driving from Scotland to Norfolk on holiday last Sunday, noticed the brakes starting to judder rather badly, while between Penrith and Scotch corner. Carried on gently after staying the night at Scotch corner, and visited the Skoda dealer in Gt Yarmouth (Simpsons). They had a look and found that all the disks were in a bad way, but the nsf had a chunk of metal missing !

 

They went out of their way to be helpful and agreed to fit new disks on Wednesday, and I took the photo below of the offending disk. The missing chunk can be clearly seen. For background, the Superb is my wife's car, 4 years old and has done 12,000 miles in that time. I suspect the heavy pitting is due to her gentle driving style (I must start taking it out every month to give the brakes a decent workout).  I can understand the pitting, but am very surprised that a chunk of metal came off !

 

Anyone else had anything similar ?

 

 

 

Don’t blame the misses too much, it’s very common for Skoda discs to do this, some people have had complete failure like what you’ve had too.

 

I do not know where Skoda/vag source their discs from, clearly from a country/business which doesn’t give a damn.

 

If you search on here you’ll see many more posts similar, glad you’re all okay 

Similar here,  March 2023 at 3 years old and only 20k miles.   Outside faces didnt look too bad but shocked at the inner faces.   
I thought it might have been due to sitting idle for longish periods (like delivered 2 weeks before first 2020 lockdown, long unused spells, and then used only for long weekend trips every 2-3 weeks since) but learnt from this forum it is common at a low mileage for the original discs.

replaced with Brembo ( no way was I going to pay the dealer for like for like replacements that might only last another 20k) and they remain smooth and sparkling so far, 10k miles later.

Edited 8 June, 20241 yr by Shuggyboatsuperb