Overheat problem

[piotrek]

Last night while I was out driving my coolant light turned on.  I immediately pulled over and checked the coolant level. It looked fine so I started the car back up and the heat was back to the normal 190º. I let the car sit idle for 30 minutes and the temperature stayed at 190º. After the 30 minutes I decided to drive home hoping it was a fluke, 10 minutes into my drive home the car starts to over heat again first hitting 200º then 250º. I pulled over and let the car idle for 5 min and the temperature went back to normal 190º.

It did this over and over.

Any ideas?

[vwjettavw]

Its probably your water pump.

[Iceman]

Yeah.  Pete, the stock water pumps are known to fail.   Tom said it's something he changes when cars come in for their 60K service.  I'd hit him up tomorrow and see when you can get that replaced.

[piotrek]

yep it was the water pump