Had the same issue with my 2017 cupra 290 (around 68k km) two weeks ago. Light came on for low coolant level and i topped it off, few days later it came on again and i noticed a puddle in the engine bay. Water pump was leaking and it had to be replaced, at the end it cost me 700€ with work included. The guy who fixed my car said that these engines are known for this issue.
 
It's normal to have to top it off after a first drive. There was probably a small amount of air trapped somewhere.
I received a bottle of coolant today via courier and went to top up after a good drive (let it cool afterwards)

Upon opening the cap there was was a hiss and the level increased to the halfway mark!

I topped up with a tiny splash of distilled water to save me cracking open the new coolant. Hopefully just a little airlock.

I'm going for a long drive on Sunday so will keep an eye on the level.

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@Peller , I would not add in any more straight water, just open the new bottle and use as required.

After replacing the coolant in my 2011 Audi S4 and using a coolant vacuum refill kit, I think that I still have some trapped air, and it is trapped in the highest section, which for that engine is in the supercharger intercoolers at the top of the engine, the reason that I think that is what is happening, is, always in the past, even with a hot engine, the coolant level has never risen more than a few mm when switched off hot when compared with when cold. After changing the coolant, the level increases by maybe 50mm when hot compared with cold level - there are couple of vent plugs but to do it once properly I'd need to lift the rear up on ramps on my sloping driveway and maybe even apply slight head pressure to the coolant reservoir, both very easy to do, but I have just not got round to it - yet!
 
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I've since driven about a 100 miles then checked the level again only to find It's dropped under the minimum mark again.

I opened the cap and had the hiss then the level increased a little. Topped up to max with coolant again.

I'll give it a few more days and have another look.

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One thing to check, is there any evidence that coolant is being ejected/dumped out of the reservoir?

I thought that after I had initially changed the coolant in my 2011 Audi S4, I was being clever refilling the reservoir to the MAX instead of half way between the MAX and MIN, I was wrong, every time we stopped, after driving for maybe 100 miles, the next morning the level had dropped to a bit lower than half way between the MAX and MIN and I wrongly interpreted that to mean that more air was being dumped out of the system and so making room for more coolant - when in fact, I worked out that what was happening was that the remaining trapped air was expanding when the coolant was at normal operating temperature and so dumping some of the extra coolant I had put into it out through the top of the reservoir. As soon as I worked that out, I stopped refilling the reservoir and no more coolant got ejected/dumped out, though as I said earlier, I think that there is still air in the highest level of the system, ie in the supercharger heat exchanger, so that is what is still causing the coolant level to rise when the coolant is at normal operating temperature.
Getting rid of that is still a job to be done, having that air in there will only mean that if I ever thrashed that car, it would not maintain its rated max power output as the supercharger heat exchanger would not be cooling the incoming compressed air down to the correct level - but that will never be a problem for me, though I will attempt to bleed the 2 heat exchangers as they will never self bleed by themselves as that coolant circuit is in a branch with its own pump and air to coolant section of the radiator.