Brake Pad fell off car

Work done in June. It’s now December and you link the two events ? The garage wouldn’t even give you the time of day on that.

Brake pads should never fall off. What it looks like is the wear material has come away from the backing plate. Shouldn't happen either a faulty pad maybe the car was sitting for a while after being driven in the wet and the disks rusted onto the pad.

Brake-pad falling off is not good, especially on a 5 year old car, but if you've left a car outside in the elements for months on end without driving it, stuff is going to get seized, like the callipers, and trying to drive a car with a seized brake, will fail at the weakest point, which seems to have been the pad this time.

Consider yourself lucky it was a consumable like a brake pad, and not a disk or calliper than broke

If you've got an asset worth tens of thousands of Euros sitting on your driveway corroding by the the day, it might be a good idea to either sell it, or store it properly, or even give it to someone who can drive it every now and then to keep it operational.

OP, you say the car hasn't moved much. Has it been left sitting for a few weeks without moving?

What you have in the photo is only part of the brake pad with what appears to be corrosion on it. The backing plate is missing and presumably still in the brake caliper. If I had to guess from your description in the OP, I'd say the brake pad was stuck to the brake disc with corrosion from lying up for a long period. When you moved it, instead of freeing itself, it broke.

A full Octavia pad including backing plate would look something like this.

Leaving a car lying up outside can lead to these sort of things, especially in winter. Try and drive it enough to get everything up to temperature a least once a week.

Can't see how you'll be able to blame that on a garage, count yourself lucky it happened at 3mph and not 60mph. Get new pads fitted and be happy you dodged a bullet.

Could very well be the cause of it, pads could have stuck on the discs from corrosion or during frosty weather and pulled it off.

If that was a main dealer service and has always been serviced there and the pads are genuine OEM I would be going back to the garage and expecting a curtesy changeout.

This just should not be happening with OEM pads with 25% meat left on them and very little mileage since.

I think you should ask them. Using it twice a week it shouldn't snap off like that.

Did someone fit a cheap pad last time around?

No way should that happen on a car going through main dealer service.

If the pad looked anyway rusted or old, dealer would have been requesting it changed out. 6 months sitting shouldn't do that to a pad.

That still doesn't make it the dealers fault by any stretch?

A car with a main dealer service history looses a bit of the brake a few months after it being worked on by the dealer with very little driving since and it's not the dealer fault!

The people in the trade are back to try and claim that the Sale of Goods and Supply of Services Act doesn't apply to them again I see.

An expert worked on a car. A non expert drove it for a few months. A part that shouldn't fall off has, the expert is the one who has to explain why and how a safety critical part fell off a car soon after they worked on it.

Nothing to do with the garage OP, happened to me with an old set or rear pads a while ago. They were due a replacement anyway, as were yours. It's unusual but it can happen.

a main dealer isn't going to do that. the dealer did an inspection 6 months ago. they are not responsible for happens in the meantime.

They would have done it when greasing the sliders.

They are responsible for the defective pads they put in the car day one, let alone the inspection 6 months ago. OEM pads should not fail like this no matter what and they should be standing over them.

Warranty status of the car is irrelevant, and it doesnt matter how old the pads are, original manufacturers parts shouldnt be falling apart like that.

These arent any old consumable either, if that pad had fallen out in a different situation there could have been serious repercussions. I'd be fuming.

Its such a serious potential hazzard that I suspect that they or after contact with the pad makers will do just that. All pads back and front too. They don't want to risk adverse publicity.

Ah you're well wrong there.