Currently driving a 2024 MK4 Fabia. I’ve been looking into changing over the rear drums to brake calipers but struggling to find a conversion kit online. Found a few that mention the MK3’s but don’t want to go spending hundreds for it not to fit. Just wondering if anyone has done this already? And what you used? Any links to relevant parts/kits and advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Hello, welcome to the forum.

Take a look at other trim levels of the Mk4 Fabia - I have a feeling that some models do have rear discs.

Just be aware that there isn't necessarily a significant advantage of discs over drums on the rear due to braking effort being front-biased .

My understanding is that, when the Fabia Mk4 was first marketed in the UK, when ordering a new car there was the option (for about £200) to specify disc rear brakes for Fabia models that had drum rear brakes as part of their standard specification. This had been an inexpensive option for many Skoda models in the past, but it was soon dropped from the Fabia Mk4UK range.

This long 2024 forum thread

https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/523468-does-the-15-tsi-have-rear-disc-brakes/

discussed whether Fabia Mk4 cars that had the 1.5litre motor (which, at that time, was only the Monte Carlo model) had disc rear brakes as standard and it was eventually established that this was indeed the case.

Nowadays most models (not just Monte Carlo and 130) in the UK Fabia Mk4 range can be specified with either a 1.5litre motor or a 1.0litre motor and the present position is that, if ANY UK-marketed Fabia Mk4 (irrespective of its model) has a 1.5litre motor, then it will have disc rear brakes as part of its standard specification.

(As the Mk4 range is relatively new and fitting a drum-to-disc conversion kit would invalidate the Skoda warranty, I doubt anyone will have done this yet.)

20 hours ago, DerekU said:

My understanding is that, when the Fabia Mk4 was first marketed in the UK, when ordering a new car there was the option (for about £200) to specify disc rear brakes for Fabia models that had drum rear brakes as part of their standard specification. This had been an inexpensive option for many Skoda models in the past, but it was soon dropped from the Fabia Mk4UK range.

This long 2024 forum thread

https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/523468-does-the-15-tsi-have-rear-disc-brakes/

discussed whether Fabia Mk4 cars that had the 1.5litre motor (which, at that time, was only the Monte Carlo model) had disc rear brakes as standard and it was eventually established that this was indeed the case.

Nowadays most models (not just Monte Carlo and 130) in the UK Fabia Mk4 range can be specified with either a 1.5litre motor or a 1.0litre motor and the present position is that, if ANY UK-marketed Fabia Mk4 (irrespective of its model) has a 1.5litre motor, then it will have disc rear brakes as part of its standard specification.

(As the Mk4 range is relatively new and fitting a drum-to-disc conversion kit would invalidate the Skoda warranty, I doubt anyone will have done this yet.)

Hi, we opted for the £99 option for rear discs to be fitted when we ordered our 2022 Fabia SE Comfort as we tow a garden trailer and a small boat fairly regularly, to me it was a no brainer for £99 👍

I remember you mentioning that last month.

https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/533923-skoda-fabia-mk4-sharp-brakes/#comment-5988731

I thought the sub-£100 disc-rear-brakes option had been dropped prior to 2022, but clearly that was not the case.

In that forum thread I said that all France-marketed Fabia Mk4 cars except the basic model had rear discs . I subsequently looked at the German Fabia catalogue and that seemed to match the UK one, with only Fabias with a 1.5litre motor having rear discs. So perhaps the French catalogue was wrong...

Edited 1 February1 Feb by DerekU

this is the rear subframe with brake discs,

https://ovoko.it/parte/lgn574371-2q0501053cg-seat-ibiza-v-kj-trave-dell-asse-posteriore

this is the one with drums

https://ovoko.it/parte/tan259811-2q0501053ch-skoda-fabia-mk4-6va-trave-dell-asse-posteriore

a video for a better explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyCuvp1q1_Q