![]() Of more concern to me would be what’s caused the coolant level to drop to trigger the red warning as cars don’t use coolant - the drop in level is usually due to a leak somewhere in the cooling system. There was a previous discussion thread on the various types of VW coolant where you’ve posted that your coolant expansion tank was marked with G13 and your version of the owner’s manual also states G13, so that’s what I’d be getting. I’m hoping I’ll have no issues tomorrow and topping up with a small bit of water will be okay. My car was delivered in May 2019 so I’m assuming this is the coolant I’ll need based off the conversations in this thread? My dad recommended to top up the coolant with some tap water, have done this previously with no issues. I’ll be doing some more driving tomorrow as it’s the last day, probably around 4 hours total. Stopped the car for about 15 minutes and tried again, luckily had no issues and arrived back safely. Was about 20 mins away from my location today and had the warning about coolant level low and the red triangle. I’m currently away on holiday (in the UK), been wracking up the miles with quite a bit of driving. `Nevertheless, that is far from boiling point even if you had clean water instead of the coolant in the system The temperature gauge can be a bit misleading as it show about 90 in the range of 85-100 degrees. The more often you drive fast, the closer the fluid should be to the max level. However when you drive faster for an extended time, there is more heat exchange, thus the pump circulates much more fluid, fluid circulates faster and the reservoir doesn't fill up fast enough, therefore the warning sign on the dash. When you drive the car normally, there is enough fluid in circulation. Factory fills up the coolant just enough to be within norms. Is this common and/or something to worry about? Up until this point the car has only been used on short local journeys for the past few months while in lockdown, this was it's first real trip out and on the motorway, so not sure if that is a factor? The engine bay was clean and no obvious signs of leakage, nor have I ever noticed fluids underneath where the car has been parked, so I'm a little concerned as to what might have caused this. When I got home I let it cool and checked the coolant level, it was indeed low, about 2mm or so under the min line, so I topped it back up to just below max. Naturally I took it easy for the only 10 or so minutes of my journey I had left, had there been signs of a real overheat I would obviously have stopped! This unnerved me a little but a quick glance at the temperature indications and everything was normal (90ish C coolant temp) and there were no signs of high temp. ![]() I was on the motorway (at 70 ) and suddenly I got 3 bleeps and a "Coolant Level Low" warning accompanied by the red warning triangle on the dash. Something strange happened whilst driving my GTI earlier this week.
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