Tiguan Front brakes.

[260Z]

My Tig MY12 is about to get its first 15K service and throwing an eye over it looking for probs that I can take to the dealer I have noticed that the front discs have already started to get a pronounced lip on the disc. The question, is this normal or do I have a problem with the brakes on this car. I have seen the same thing with poor quality pads that wear the disc prematurely but even then it wouldnt start to show up for about 40K. I havnt found any other threads on this but has any body had the same problem.

Geof.

[nat225]

Question u have to ask first, how do u brake? What typeof driving u do? Etc..

[vdubmotorworx]

standard to see a lip on about 90% of cars..nothing to worry about....VDUB..

[260Z]

Hey guys thanks for the replies. I am aware of the lips on the discs of most cars. I am also aware that they have normally travelled about three sets of pads. I am talking about a car that has travelled less than 15K with wear that would normaslly equate to 80-90K. The car is manual with a towbar but i towed a box trailer for about 6klm so far. I dont ride the brakes and have to pull up quickly twice from 100klmh, bloody caravans and thier broken indicators. What I am asking is if I am going to need to replace the discs every time I replace the pads. It just seems to be excessive to me to have a 1.75mm lip in less than 15K.

Thankyou for your interest.

Geof.

[miller0]

It does sound unusual, but you won't have to replace the discs... Just have them machined to skim the lip away.

[Transporter]

There is not much to be machined. I always recommend replacing the discs with pads. You should get 50,000km out of the Tiguan brakes under normal driving conditions. Installing new pads on worn discs is not the best idea, since you may get noises and it will take longer for the new pads to bed in.

[LunchboxVRS]

Hey guys thanks for the replies. I am aware of the lips on the discs of most cars. I am also aware that they have normally travelled about three sets of pads. I am talking about a car that has travelled less than 15K with wear that would normaslly equate to 80-90K. The car is manual with a towbar but i towed a box trailer for about 6klm so far. I dont ride the brakes and have to pull up quickly twice from 100klmh, bloody caravans and thier broken indicators. What I am asking is if I am going to need to replace the discs every time I replace the pads. It just seems to be excessive to me to have a 1.75mm lip in less than 15K.

Thankyou for your interest.

Geof.

3 sets of pads on one disc without machining or replacing is plain stupid.
And a 1.75 mm lip in 15k km. I'd check your measurement again.
I just put new pads and slotted rotors on a tig with nearly 25k km that tows a trailer for a law mowing business. There was a lip but it doesn't catch your nail it was just a nice slope. Wouldn't be any more then 0.5 mm

[brad]

Hey guys thanks for the replies. I am aware of the lips on the discs of most cars. I am also aware that they have normally travelled about three sets of pads. I am talking about a car that has travelled less than 15K with wear that would normaslly equate to 80-90K. The car is manual with a towbar but i towed a box trailer for about 6klm so far. I dont ride the brakes and have to pull up quickly twice from 100klmh, bloody caravans and thier broken indicators. What I am asking is if I am going to need to replace the discs every time I replace the pads. It just seems to be excessive to me to have a 1.75mm lip in less than 15K.

Thankyou for your interest.

Geof.

Unfortunately your OEM discs will wear at about the same rate as the pads. Maybe if you are lucky you will get 2 pad changes/1 rotor. I'd recomend when the time comes to change out the pads/rotors that you go with a quality aftermarket solution - then you can forget about accelerated pad/rotor wear & also excessive brake dust.

[MGV]

I have a feeling the VW - Trailer assist (or whatever it's called) automatically trails the rear brakes lightly to minimise the swaying from side to side action you sometimes see on trailers with a short draw.

How are your rear pads looking compared to front?

I have 70000 on my original pads with a fair bit of meat left on them...