As above, our other car is an Audi A4 3.0 v6 petrol. Lately, shes been losing a bit of coolant from around the water pump area, few pink drips so i top it up every couple of weeks, takes about a coffee cup full, maybe less.

Quote for a new water pump/cambelt is £700 but in all honesty, its a 2003 and getting on and isnt work a lot more, so we're hoping ot not spend out on it.

Never really noticed before but the temperature gauge gets up to temp in about 5 minutes of normal driving, is this 'normal'? Or is she getting warmer, quicker?

Trying to work out if the pump is knackered and NEEDS doing, or have just got a small (at the moment) leak?

Only really do short trips in her anyway, so very unlikely to get caught out 60 or 70 miles from home