Any ideas: coolant level dropping

[S3 Wannabe]

Just need a bit of help!

During the day at work I seemed to have lost about a pint to a pint and a half of coolant (may have been dropping for a few days tbh). when i started to leave work, temp warning symbol came up on the DIS, and I topped it up straight away.
Got home (no prob's on the way with temp guage -rose slowly to 90 as usual), and coolant level had dropped a little. l noticed water slowly dripping off one of 2 pipes (covered in silver mesh) running up the back of the engine bay into the rear of the engine itself.

Any ideas??? I'm assuming perhaps just an old cracked pipe!!???

 

[abdus]

can't you trace to where it's leaking? Jack up the car if possible and look from underneath

 

[Clach]

defo a crack somewhere mate...

 

[Nilz]

Looks like a cracked pipe, see if you can have the car running and have it jacked up, then see if you can work out where its dripping...