2000 AUDI S4 User Comment / Complaint

The car was purchased on may of 2007. the cars instrument panel was working fine when purchased. all the cars critical information is displayed on the panel. a month after purchased i noticed that the panel intermittently fails. the car was running low on coolant but since i could not read the deploy i had no idea until the car overheated and the water pump blew. the repair alone cost me $800.00. mechanic stated that the instrument cluster should have displayed that the coolant was low. so i also believe this would be dangerous because all warning information is displayed on the cluster; brakes, temperature and oil.