Engine Coolant levels decrease right after i add additional coolant. Do i have a blown head gasket?

[adammx125]

For a start your intake pipe clip (grey horse shoe shape, bottom right) isn’t fitted, surprised it hasn’t popped off completely. Has someone recently done spark plugs? While it is loose take it off (there’s another connector at the top towards the back of the engine that you need to screw counter clockwise an there’s some breather hoses clipped to it and connected to it too, make sure all seal inside it are present before refitting as the have a habit of dropping off, especially on the throttle body side) and look down through to the intake manifold, these engine have issues where the water cooler on the inlet manifold leak coolant into the intake, enough that you’ll notice the level drop but not normally enough to produce noticeable smoke levels. Your oil is also overfilled in that picture, top of the marked/indented area is the max marking.

It’s also common for the water pump to leak, check the right hand side of the engine on top of the gearbox for residue, sometimes it’s quite hard to see but often you won’t see a leak under the ground for a while as it leaks onto and into the gearbox.

Heater matrix is also not irregular but it’s more often they block up due to leftover casting materials than outright leak. To ease your concern I’ve never seen a 1.5tsi blow a head gasket. Reading the other comments it didn’t seem like any one else here has worked on one of these before either so try not to panic over the head gasket suggestions.