If a Fabia Mk4's alloy wheels are (like my 2024 SE L model) fitted with the plastic 'Aero' wheel trims, the brake components (front and rear) are visually invisible from outside the vehicle.

For me, my Fabia is just an unexciting mid-size 'family' car - it's comfortable and efficient and ogling its brakes does not concern me.

(Having said that, I would have opted for rear disc brakes for £95 if I had had the choice, but not for aesthetic reasons.)

Skoda fabia 2022 1.0 tsi auto. Although I posted this. I wrote to skoda indicating how sharp the brakes still are after purchase. I indicated that while under warranty they looked at brakes and filed the pads corners, no difference. Skoda wrote they understand that skoda dealer looked and brakes, they advised that I have technician and dinostic check. I mentioned the forum and others felt the brakes sharp. They give no reason why they sharp. So I felt the letter more or less left it to myself to book a check with skoda dealer at my cost.

Diagnostics is a big money maker for Main Dealers, even if the car is under warranty I believe you may have to pay for this?, Victim: "My windscreen wipers are noisy", "Yes Sir, our diagnostics does confirm this, that will be £150 Sir, £60 for the new wipers and only £90 for the diagnostics."

Sharp Brakes??, For those of us old enough to remember it, what about the brake limiting/proportional valve, or whatever it was called, before the days of ABS?

I once owned a BMW R69 600cc motorbike that had a twin-leading-shoe front drum brake. This brake (for its day) was very powerful and, when fitting new brake-shoes, owners were advised to chamfer the shoes' leading edge to prevent the brake grabbing. But that was with a drum brake...

This video suggests filing the BACKING PLATE of disc-brake pads so that the calliper's piston will retract properly

but I've never come across any suggestion that filing the edges/corners of a disc-brake pad (or of the pad's backing plate) might be a known ploy to reduce the sharpness of a vehicle's brakes. And, from fabia1960's postings, whatever the Skoda mechanics did filing-wise, made no improvement.

I hesitate to say this, but it should be plain from the comments above that Fabia Mk4 braking at slow speeds is sharp (my 2024 Mk4's certainly is) and that this is a characteristic of the Mk4 breed and won't be considered a fault by Skoda unless the 'sharpness' is much worse than that of other Mk4s.

Low-speed braking 'sharpness' is not confined to Fabia Mk4s, or to Skodas, or to other VW Group models. It's a widespread (and disliked) commonplace feature as this 2018 Ford discussion shows.

https://www.fordownersclub.com/forums/topic/102221-really-sharp-brakes/

It really needs several owners of similar Fabia Mk4s to fabia1960's to test-drive fabia1960's car and comment on whether its braking is fundamentally different to that of their Fabias. If it is, then there's something wrong with fabia1960's car and, if it is not, then there isn't.