[MickC]

Have any of you owners had a look at your front disc’s,are they bright and shiney ? or a bit dull ?

 

I noticed from quite early on in my ownership that the front disc’s were not shining up like most other cars f/disc’s look like after a few miles on the clock.

In fact mine were quite dull and had visible rustiness breaking thru the painted finish on the non braking part of the disc.

Now i had been driving in normal mode and using the paddle shifts for regen braking plus footbrake.

I went into my local Skoda to pose the question are the disc’s made of poor quality material are the pads contaminated,a techinician (who actually owned an Enyak) came and have a look he said that the rust affects most Enyaks and the disc looking dull was down to how i have been driving ( i dont brake hard and tend to anticipate braking in advance) even with the regen assistance switched off the brakes were still dull to look at.he said i needed to do my barking differently a bit more aggresively,asked if he could borrow my car for a test drive gave him the keys and after about 10 mins he came back showed me the brake discs and they were looking alot more shiny.

Took his advice onboard and have been braking later and more forcefully and the disc’s are cleaning up but not my entire satisfaction yet.

Went to Post ofice yesterday and there was a Coupe Sportline (73 plate) parked up outside the chemist and i went and had a look at its front disc’s and they were just the same as mine,i also saw a ID4 the other week and the disc’s were just like mine.

I’m thinking that these disc’s have a high iron content in the metalurgical composition.

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[Rhodgie]

No idea about the metal composition but I do think you should follow the technicians advice and do an occasional bit of hard braking if that concerned about it.

Can’t say I’ve read too many comments about the state of the brakes and those I have read have all given the same answer, to do some occasional heavy braking.

[Jojoe]

Isn’t this solely down to regen braking rather than composition of the disks, I’ve heard of Tesla’s doing 100k miles without needing a set of brakes.

[kezo]

The average car will use cast iron brake disks, which cast is typically made from iron, carbon and silcon in whatever ratio’s.

High performance cars have carbon ceramic discs.

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