Moin municipality, now it caught me as well. On Tuesday morning, shortly after the start, I heard an unusual sound for years: squeaking from the belt! Depending on the gas pedal position a little stronger, or weaker. Like to old Golf I – times I thought that I would soon drive if the jagged don’t stop. After all, the thickness is only 8 months old. There should not be such displeasure. Unfortunately, shortly afterwards came in the middle of the village. play the message “Electric. Turn off the consumer!”, connected with a wildly twitching pointer in the voltmeter. Well… because I will just switch off the steering wheel and seat heating and drive directly to it. Can be then only the wedge belt, or the alternator is defective. Not two kilometers further then the next Jobs message in the middle display: “Check coolant. Bordbook” This time in red flashing. Since the coolant and the oil temperature was at approx. 90° and also no ansta When I turned left into our road I almost sank the thick one into the neighboring hedge, because unfortunately there was no more servo unsupport of the steering. On the long straight line I did not notice the lack of power steering at all. With ach and noise I drove it then to our property (Servo went around on the right) where then suddenly thick steam-swads out of the motorha ube arrived. I immediately switched off the engine and opened the bonnet, while a large puddle had already formed coolant under the car. Excitingly, the display of the cooling water temperature had not moved all the time. It was still standing at about 90° Well then…. Phone snapped and called the VW VIP hotline. They then informed mr that they were getting in touch with my dealer. Two minutes later my phone called and c a. 20 min. after that the tug stood at the door. After we have charged the thickness we drove together to the. There I got first an A4 (unfortunately switched) so that I could drive further into the office. I would also have got a replacement Phaeton, only then I would have had to wait two days at the dealer and then the coffee there does not taste so good Not matter… an A4 is also not so bad (jammering at high level) Yesterday evening I got the thickness then again. Fri According to the master, the water pump was defective, which initially represented a leak to the housing. This led to cooling water coming on the belt, which prevented it from driving the alternator with full power. Finally, the housing was completely burst, which led to the entire engine compartment being damaged with cooling water. Therefore, the large steam wool was also used to wash, suck and the winter wheels were also mounted immediately. no. On my question, if something like this occurs more frequently in the Phaeton, the master denied, but recently came several newer A8 with 3.0TDI, which had the same defect. Conclusion: Half a day lost in the office (oh… as a pity), two days A4 driven (there is worse), a new water pump get (great) and found that the VW service worked in my case, even if no replacement Phaeton was put. I’m just glad it wasn’t a marder bite that was too bad. The insurance company would have had to take action again. So… .. continue to drive well and always have a hand-breathed cooling water in the balance tank. Peter