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Transit Custom brake disc failure

Postby littledave2 » Thu Sep 20, 2018 9:07 pm

Evening all,
I am new here with requests for help and maybe a warning.

The front right brake disc on my 2015 Transit Custom failed yesterday.
The disc is a vented type with two friction discs connected by webs.
The webs have completely failed so that the inboard half of the disc detached from the hub.

This caused a loud bang but was not serious as speed was low.

The van is a little over 3 years old and has covered 30,000ish gentle miles, it is a campervan conversion.

Has anyone seen this type of failure before? it is a new one for me.

Thanks, Dave

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Re: Transit Custom brake disc failure

Postby fisherman99 » Thu Sep 20, 2018 10:27 pm

The only time I've seen discs do that is when old and worn very thin yours look to have plenty of meat on it very strange maybe manufacturing fault if it was higher mileage I'd suspect cheap pattern parts fitted
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Re: Transit Custom brake disc failure

Postby tellytubby » Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:51 pm

My colleague had his 17 custom in for another oil service update today and there was a 15 plate brought in by AA van with exactly the same fault. No idea of mileage but as previously said its not the kind of fault I'd generally be expecting unless poor quality or excessively worn parts. Hard to believe a 3 year old van isn't on Ford discs though...
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Re: Transit Custom brake disc failure

Postby trooper1999 » Mon Oct 15, 2018 5:38 am

I Have a 15 reg van with 55k miles on mine did the same about 5000 miles ago, It was on replacement Ford disc's, the garage we us said they have never seen anything like it before. Do Ford have issues with disc's?
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Re: Transit Custom brake disc failure

Postby topshelf » Tue Apr 16, 2019 11:25 pm

Just to add to the post mine went today, 15 plate 33k on the clock , used mostly as a car for light duty work.
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