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Can't feel a thing with my fingernail, and the lip at the edge is very slight. Thanks everyone for helping me come to a conclusion on this. I thought as much, but with seemingly unlimited knowledge from you guys, I thought it would be worth popping the question on! Much love!

Thanks for that input. It's a 19 plate, I've had it since new and, in all honesty, probably cleaned it and looked after it TOO much, and not thrashed it around enough. I'm usually very gentle with the brakes, as it's drilled into you during advanced driving courses, but even a couple of hard stops this afternoon didn't clean the rear discs off, maybe I should have used ACC as I know that uses the rears to brake. Thinking about it, ABS probably stopped the rears from hardly working at all, given the weight shift in hard stopping. Good to know you don't think there's anything wrong with the fronts, I was concerned folks would classify that as 'scoring'. I don't want to throw money down the drain, but also definitely not keen on penny pinching to the point where safety is compromised. I definitely don't think I'll be getting OEM brakes next time!

Hi folks, Just wanted to pick your brains, if you don’t mind! At my recent service, the dealership advised that my following a ‘visual inspection’, my brakes were corroded and they advised replacement (at 16,000 miles), however this was not raised as important on the actual service sheet. A lot of the corrosion on the discs at the time was just because I’m gentle on the brakes and hadn’t driven the poor thing in so long. I’ve just taken it out for a spirited drive with a few 0-60-emergency stops attempts, and the results are below. I’ve posted the ‘best looking’ and ‘worst looking’ discs. There’s no noticeable reduction in braking performance, and no noises, rumbles or pulling to either side. The circular lines in the images feel flat to my finger, but I can’t see how they can be. Is this just a characteristic of our cars, or has lockdown knackered them? Thanks for all your input in advance.

Seems so! Mine are very similar - lockdown is knackering them.

These two should help!

You seem to know more than me, so I do welcome your input. Do you think the only potential cause of NSF inner wear could be a tracking issue? I was under the impression that faulty suspension could cause this. Would this not affect both front tyres? Why would the VW service report indicate tracking was fine if it isn't the case?

Alignment was checked during the service and confirmed to be fine. It's a shame the dealership don't fit PS4S tyres, otherwise I'd be more open for a 'price reduction' offer. Certainly not keen on handing over any pennies for a set of conti 5s. re. dealership, it's with Heritage VW Bristol.

Hi all, just wanted to get some people's thoughts on this. My car is two years old, and since about month 6 I've been reporting horrible squeaks and creaks coming from the front axle that I thought to be the suspension. It's been in to VW three times with this issue, each time they've said 'can't really see anything wrong, but we'll do X Y Z to try and help', none of the fixes involving the supension, instead adding padding to the door incase it was a rattle. About a year ago I contacted the service advisor again with a Volkswagen TPI and a tech report for something I thought to be the same, if not a very similar issue. I got no response to two emails to the service advisor, not from an email to the dealership's customer service. Car was booked in for service today, I also asked them to take a look at this and provided them with the documentation. The tech confirmed that I was correct and that the suspension bushings are faulty, car is going back in next week for repair. On the service sheet, it states that I have uneven tyre wear on my NSF tyre, 100% worn on the inner edge and 5m of tread everywhere else. I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I strongly imagine that it's the suspension issue that has caused this uneven wear. Do you think I've got any chance of getting VW to replace the front tyres as part of this warranty work, as it's the suspension failure that's caused the uneven wear, and I've been trying to get it sorted for A YEAR AND A HALF?

With odb11 it pops up straight away as soon as you hit connect. I don’t trust it though, it reads 11.9v, but a multimeter across the terminals reads 12.5v. Halfords have suggested the power magic pro is faulty and are looking to replace that, along with a second battery. I thought I was having some horrible issue that was also resulting in my car alarm going off every night repeatedly for the last three nights. However last night when I went out to turn it off I saw the world’s largest f*****g moth flying around inside. Got rid of him and like magic my alarm issues stopped! 😂

Thanks for the feedback so far guys. Really useful. I think this may just be normal for the car then. As I'm driving less for work these days, I think I might start using the CTEK more frequently.

Hi all, I've been racking my brain over this, and cannot understand what's going on, wondered if anyone else could drop their thoughts in. On 4th Aug I had Halfords fit a Blackvue DR900S-2CH dashcam with the Power Magic Pro (parking mode) box, all went well. I was driving the car every day without issue. Then on the 20th Aug I go to get in the car and... nothing. Completely dead. Got the RAC out to investigate and was told that the battery was down to 3V and it was knackered, reading only 200EN of it's 680EN rating. Turns out during fitting the glovebox was not reassembled correctly resulting in the glovebox light remaining on constantly, killing the battery. Yesterday Halfords provided me a new battery, but this battery also seems to only read around 12.4V, even with the ignition on and after a good hour and a half's drive. Has anyone experienced anything like this, or may know any reason why a brand new battery would be showing at such a low voltage?

When I see other Rs driving around in the dark, their inner headlights seem to be working, as shown in this picture on the VW website. My headlights only seem to ever light up the outer two bulbs, and the inner ones only function as main beam. What's up with this?

I’ve noticed that the ‘auto’ mode seems to always use the air conditioning, even to heat. I presume this is to dehumidify. Assuming the compressor isnt working hard for this, what impact will this have on fuel consumption in comparison to turning AC off and not running on auto?

Not what’s happening. This is the error. I suspect the post above may be accurate, as it was built in November.

Car was registered 5 days ago. I doubt there's anything wrong with the battery. I don't do short runs, 35 miles each way twice per day.