The brakes on my Fabia (06 13,000 miles) travel quite a way before beginning to bite and then there is a spongy feeling associated with this. Stopping power seems OK but travel and sponginess appears excessive.

Also there is slow travel down when the brake is held on under pressure when at a standstill, as you would get if the master cylinder rubbers were worn. I am told this is normal for a deisel car.

Dealer checked and said all was OK.

Is this brake feeling usual on the Fabia.

Does that make sense:confused:

Appreciate your feedback

The brakes on my Fabia (06 13,000 miles) travel quite a way before beginning to bite and then there is a spongy feeling associated with this. Stopping power seems OK but travel and sponginess appears excessive.

Also there is slow travel down when the brake is held on under pressure when at a standstill, as you would get if the master cylinder rubbers were worn. I am told this is normal for a deisel car.

Dealer checked and said all was OK.

Is this brake feeling usual on the Fabia.

Does that make sense:confused:

Appreciate your feedback

Quite a few people have upgraded their vRS front brakes to larger ones because they don't like the feel of the standard ones. Search for 312mm brakes on this forum - you'll find lots of info.

Don't see how brake feel would be different for a diesel car!?

However, spongy feeling and very poor brakes are pretty common on the vRS.

If your stopping power is ok, but the pedal has lots of travel and no feel then it sounds like just bleeding the system might improve things.

i have this on my 55 vrs fabia. its really begining to anoy me. breakes work fine but not on the first touch of the peddle. its a good inch or two down before anything starts to happen. doesnt give me much confidence when giving it the beans on the country roads. i used to have a 54 reg vrs and they where champion! good bite and not much travel. blead them the other day, a bit or air came out but not much and not that much improvement. goin scotland in it tomorrow, hope it dosent spoil the drive!

IMHO the 312 upgrade gives more feel and is therefore worth doing for that reason alone.

The perception of nothing happening is because the car dives first, so it feels as if nothing is happening. If you look at your speedo though, there is.

So you tend to brake and then push down more as you reckon nothing is happening. The lack of perceived control was why I upgraded mine.

Better suspension that reduces the dive sure helps there.

The stock brakes work well for the rest to be fair, although you can get them to fade if pushed on hard (let alone track use).

due to your low mileage for the age of the car , i would suggest your brakes need bedding in and deglazing , a few heavy braking runs from 60 mph to stop should do the trick (obviously done under safe road conditions)

Bedding in after 13k ? 1-2k perhaps, but 13k would seem a tad late on?

Deglazing I could buy though