Just had 1st service (18600 miles) on my Octy 2.0 and received an advisory about heavily worn discs. Waranty manual says after 6000 miles any issues are considered wear and tear :eek: Have spoken to Skoda customer services and they have advised my garage to submit a warranty claim anyway. But has anybody else had this problem. It only gets normal family use.

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Steve

Dont know, my vRS is upto 41k miles, lots of hard driving and track miles. Disks still like new.

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Steve

only on my socks

only on my socks

What are the rears like?,18600 miles is nothing i'd ask them to check the whole system

Steve

My original discs are perfect after 9000 miles and two track days.

Mind you the've been in a box in the garage for 7000 of those miles

Steve

I was told on my 2nd service (38K) that I'd probably need new front discs and pads at the next service (56K). As the pads hadn't ever even been replaced, this came as a shock.

IIRC they reckoned around

Had a look myself. The rear on one side is very heavily scored with a fairly wide band of what looks like rust on the outside edge the other is just badly scored with some pitting. The fronts are badly scored. Fingers crossed that Skoda UK sort me out.

I also have a favorit with 50k miles and the discs are in far better condition

Ahh, another 2.0 Octy owner at last. GLXi by any chance?

I have a similar story...

Car bought at 14k in 2001, had the garage change the discs as they showed signs of warping.

In under a year, they where off again. I'd not even put 10k on the car, though there might have been a touch of m/way shennanigans.

2002, another set of discs, though iirc, these where the rears - at around 30K.....

Now I'm approaching 42K, and the fronts might be heading for skimming/replacement again...

I feel deep down, the 2.0 lump must add some weight out front, or just have the brake bias set too much on the fronts. Why do I think this?

1. Few vRS owners get this sort of wear, despite first impressions that they alldrive like their pants are on fire.

2. I've had two mildly sporty peugeots which I drove a LOT harder than the Octy and neither of them required attention to the brakes (bar the 205 which completely corroded it's rears overnight....... :eek: )

Still, you might get it under warranty - I did the first two times....sadly, I'm all out of warranty now....... :(

Edit:

The fronts are badly scored.

Could this be down to poor brake cooling? Pads cooking on the discs..? Or am I talking out of my bum? (wouldn't be the first time..)

Mine do seem to retain a lot of heat, even after only very short journeys. And no, I don't drive/brake like a man possessed.........

Had a 2.0 SLX nov 1999 Octavia, sold it at 40+ K miles disks and pads original no scrorig. However rear discs did have a double band around where the pad seemed smaller than the width of the disk. Car driven reasonably gently with mixed use.

John

would be checking for seized/ binding calipers as a first port of call...................the wear style seems to be unusual!!

alyn

Had a look myself. The rear on one side is very heavily scored with a fairly wide band of what looks like rust on the outside edge the other is just badly scored with some pitting. The fronts are badly scored. Fingers crossed that Skoda UK sort me out.

I also have a favorit with 50k miles and the discs are in far better condition

Have you ever left the car for a while during the winter when there's

salt on the roads and come back to find the pads stuck to the disks

with rust? Most of the rust will be scrubbed away by the pads when you

drive but sometimes you can be left with 'scoring'.

Stu.

Do you live down a gritty unmade road, fatbloke? Or do lots of driving in the countryside? Otherwise I guess it could be down to different disc/pad compound combinations. Discs are NOT all the same, neither are pads. If you get some very abrasive pads with soft discs you can expect discs to wear more quickly than usual.

18k does sound rather low, but OEM discs are not that expensive, and are a very easy item to change. They DO wear out, any component whose purpose in life is to make friction with another component is going to ... fact of life :(

I have a 1.9 TDI 02 plate. I have just had my pads and disks replaced on the rear after 46k. I would have expected another 20k out of them. I am quite suprised

Skoda are going to do the job but I think I would expect 40k front and at least half again on the rear. Thanks for the answers though, fingers crossed for the next set!

Fatbloke

My 4x4 had the front discs replaced under warranty at 35k as they had started to warp (I had to pay for pads).

This was 99.9% caused by driving in really bad conditions in late January (heavy salt /snow/ice) then leaving the car parked up for 3 days immediately after. As mentioned by Balerno above, as I'm also not heavy on tyres or brakes.

Rob