Berlingo - Berlingo used car advice - bmelling

Hey,

Hope you are having a great day - I would love to get some advice on buying a used citreon berlingo - I am after getting a car to do some long trips in with plenty of space and the citreon berlingo looked like a good option. I noticed that there were a number of forums mentioning that the 1.6 HDi diesel is known to have some issues, especially after a significant amount of mileage if it isn't serviced correctly and timely. My price would be around the £5K mark, so I realise for the amount of money I'm spending there's always a risk of an expensive failure, but would appreciate any thoughts. If for the price I would be better off getting another car, happy to hear suggestions.

I have linked a few examples that I was looking at, so if you had any advice on the below that would be great. I was thinking of going to see the 1st listing, considering it is slightly newer although realise the adBlue often causes issues:

https://ebay.us/m/1K413P 1

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202506103368548?sort=distance&... 2

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202506033128039?sort=distance&... 2

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202506053201451?sort=distance&... 1

Thanks for your help

Berlingo - Berlingo used car advice - gordonbennet

The 2nd lower mileage one would be mt first call, unless you really need euro 6 i'd be avoiding it.

Privately owned. The write up description tallies with the MOT mileages, ie 10k a year over the last 2 years but lower mileages before.

The MOT history reveals several issues with the O/S outer CV joint boot, this follows an early (39k mile) OS wheel bearing issue, and i suspect someone has used those hopeless glue together CV boots to avoid stripping the drive shaft and fixing a proper OE quality boot, so if you do consider buying it would be worth getting the OSD driveshaft stripped properly relubed with a new boot fitted.

The 1.6 like many Diesels requires the maker's laughable service intervals to be treated with the contempt they deserve, driven with mechanical sympathy and serviced regularly they are OK.

Berlingo - Berlingo used car advice - edlithgow

The MOT history reveals several issues with the O/S outer CV joint boot, this follows an early (39k mile) OS wheel bearing issue, and i suspect someone has used those hopeless glue together CV boots to avoid stripping the drive shaft and fixing a proper OE quality boot, so if you do consider buying it would be worth getting the OSD driveshaft stripped properly relubed with a new boot fitted.

I've had fairly good luck with those. On my Renault 5 it turned out removng the drive shaf was dead easy, so I did that and then fitted the boot "on the bench" (actually on the draining board) since that made for an easier cleaner fittment, but I still used the split boot kit since that's what I had. No problem at all.

What issues have you had with them?

I think I did have one where I cut it to the wrong length and it wouldn't seat properly so I had to re-do it, but that was my poor judgement.

Berlingo - Berlingo used car advice - Bromptonaut

Like GB I'd avoid the Euro 6 one unless you actually need it due to LEZ issues.

Not much to choose between the rest.

We ran a 2013 (63) one from new until we sold it earlier this year by which time it was in the mileage bracket you are looking at. Followed Citroen's service requirements and used a franchise dealer for nearly all service/repair.

Only major failure was a fuel injector that threw in the towel in late 23 and cost nearly £1k to rectify. The pump for the liquid PSA use in the DPF also gave up but that didn't ground it.

If you get a good one they're fantastic vehicles.

We've gone down to one car and would have had another 'lingo but they've not got the heft to tow anything other than small caravans and have a trap with gross train weight which limits 'vans to 1,000 kg if you need the car's full load.