Just curious is there any adjustment height-wise on my Fabia Brake pedal?

I occasionally catch the welt/edge of my shoe on the pedal.

No.

A bit more on this...

There is plenty of online discussion about cars' foot-pedal height and the pedal catching on shoes (example here)

https://f87.bimmerpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1781198

The last car I owned that had adjustable foot-pedals was a 1970's Reliant Scimitar GTE, but the adjustment then was horizontal not vertical.

I have dinky little feet (UK size 7) and I don't wear shoes with significant 'welts' (nor wellingtons or work boots) when driving.

If a car has manual transmission (and its technology won't throw a fit) I will choose to 'heel-and-toe' when downshifting if I can, but for me to do this requires the brake and accelerator pedals to be quite close together and positioned at roughly the same horizontal level and height.

In the past I've fitted a wider/deeper plate to the top of the accelerator or brake pedal, but heel-and-toeing is realistically a non-starter with most modern cars as the accelerator and brake pedals are at very different heights and - equally important - braking performance is non-linear. When I bought a manual-gearbox Skoda Roomster in 2009 I immediately realised that heel-and-toeing was out and I've now come to terms with this.

As car's pedals tend to be too high for my liking, I just add some thick extra car mats to bring the floor level up rather than attempt to adapt the pedals themselves to try to lower them. Obviously doing this has potential safety risks, so I glue/tape the extra mats down so they cannot move about in the foot-well.

Edited 6 March, 20251 yr by DerekU

I had just been told that there is adjustment but I have chosen not to say anything because

it can affect other settings and should only be adjusted by a Skoda Tech (I am told)

I have no right leg so no right foot and drive automatics without having a left hand accelerator fitted.

If the Brake pedal is ever an issue height wise on a borrowed car or my own car i might remove the Rubber or plastic cover.

Some need glued back on when putting back, or for a MOT. Sometimes i put on a thin bit of rubber, or a bit of sand paper / skate board deck tape.

I used to decades ago cut down the Automatics Brake pedal or Modify by modifying.

ie Shortening the arm and welding back on the pedal. (But that was depending on the arm being cast, weldability.)

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/451801-dsg-brake-pedal-height

Edited 7 March, 20251 yr by Ootohere

12 hours ago, gumdrop said:

I had just been told that there is adjustment but I have chosen not to say anything because

it can affect other settings and should only be adjusted by a Skoda Tech (I am told)

The problem with foot-pedal positions on a car with manual transmission is that the first thing a driver must be able to do is fully depress the clutch-pedal and this often results in the brake and/or accelerator pedals then being too close to the driver than he/she would like, or be comfortable with, but there's little that can be done about this by the driver. This conflict does not occur when the car has no clutch-pedal and, although the brake-pedal of my manual-transmission 2009 Skoda Roomster is too high for my liking, that is not the case with my automatic-transmission 2024 Skoda Fabia.

I've seen it said that major alterations to car foot-pedal positions can be carried out by firms specialising in providing services to disabled drivers, so it would be interesting to know what a Skoda dealership would be prepared (or able) to do to lower the height of your car's brake-pedal.

On 08/03/2025 at 08:57, DerekU said:

The problem with foot-pedal positions on a car with manual transmission is that the first thing a driver must be able to do is fully depress the clutch-pedal and this often results in the brake and/or accelerator pedals then being too close to the driver than he/she would like, or be comfortable with, but there's little that can be done about this by the driver.

Tell me about it, I sometimes drive Mrs BJ's Panda that has teeny pedals. The BIG problem is I have size 13/extra wide shoes!

It no longer gives the responder the information of cars owned by the poster or responder, for instance my Fabia has a DSG gearbox.

At the top-left of each of my postings is this

and clicking on my user-name (DerekU) allows my forum Profile to be viewed. This includes a Car Info section that - in my case - includes details of the two Skoda cars I currently own

Model

2024 Fabia SE L DSG, 2009 Roomster 1.6 Manual

and I don't think there can be any confusion over the model, build-year or transmission-type.

The Car Info section on your Profile includes the following

Model

Yeti Elegance Outdoor 2WD 110ps EU6, Fabia Combi 1.0L 110 Kamiq 1.5 DSG Monte Carlo

and seems to relate to three Skoda models (age unspecified) - a Yeti, a Fabia and a Kamiq. However, although "DSG" is stated, I'm not sure how one can know whether this transmission-type relates to the Fabia, the Kamiq or to both.

Edited 13 March, 20251 yr by DerekU

@DerekU That is true as far as it goes! I have to explicitly open $member's profile to read their location and owned vehicles data fields, when they used, prior to the recent sidegrade, to be displayed by default to people who use real computers.

This change is a result of the recent forum software upgrade. If you think it's a retrograde move (and I wouldn't disagree) you need to talk to the forum Administrator.

However, as long as forum-members are aware that the Profle is where a member's car ownership and location details are held (and how to access those data) I don't see this as a great problem. And, of course, there's no mandatory obligation for a forum-member to provide car or location details if they choose not to.

I'm a moderator on a forum that (like BRISKODA) runs on the Invision Community platform. That forum has no capability to define vehicle-related details despite such data often being essential to answering an enquiry. Despite 'pinned' prompts to provide such information before making a vehicle-related technical enquiry, these are regularly ignored and, even when the information is provided, it is often inadequate or ambiguous. I sometimes wonder if people go to their GP and say "I have a pain in an appendage, what's wrong?"

As far as lowering the height of the brake-pedal of a Fabia Mk 4 with DSG transmission is concerned, although there is no obvious built-in height adjustment, a DIY modification to extend the bottom of the pedal downwards should not be too hard.

Even simpler (as I touched on above) would be raise the height of the foot-well's floor by adding an extra layer of firmly-fixed-down thick carpeting.

(The 'pad' of the brake-pedal of my 2024 Fabia DSG has a 90-degree downwards extension on each side that limits the opportunity for a driver's foot moving sideways off the accelerator-pedal (or foot-rest) and catching under the pedal. And the accelerator and brake pedals are also quite some distance apart.)