Well our work vans mot is coming up, its a astra van thats a bit too small height wise for what we need.
So........ we have brought a £150 Citroen berlingo! The reason I sold buying it to my dad was that the engines in these, its an R reg Diesel btw is
the same as the one in the Pug 405 Diesels. It needs the head gasket doing and an MOT but hopefully it will be worth it.
So does anyone know if the engines are the same or similar? Also are these vans subseptable to anything. When we get it what are the bits to look at
beyond the obvious?
Any help would be appreciated!
Cheers
[Edited on 22/4/09 by trogdor]
Bottom arm rear bushes can wear as can the drop links . If the fuel pump cut off solonoid packs up it can be a pump off job to remove tha anti tamper cover on the raer of the pump. Worth fitting a timing belt kit and water pump when head is off. Springs can braek and can be a bit of a job to do. All in all no worse than any other van and better than a lot of them
We have had one for tooling about the airfield for 4 years now so only a few miles a week in our hands but 99k in all.
A couple of batteries
An alternator
a front spring
and
most of the plastic in the back has fallen off and the rear doors are awkward
Central locking only works on the front doors but it does take large bulky loads
Cool thanks for the reviews, it sounds ideal for what we want as the Astravan has a low roof which can't take certain lab equipment upright which
is no good for us. The Berlingo has about an extra foot of height which is what we need
Good to hear that they aren't too bad!
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Originally posted by trogdor
So........ we have brought a £150 Citroen berlingo! The reason I sold buying it to my dad was that the engines in these, its an R reg Diesel btw is the same as the one in the Pug 405 Diesels. It needs the head gasket doing and an MOT but hopefully it will be worth it.
I actually have no idea of its an D or TD engine. We haven't seen it, and have brought it unseen. The distance we would travel and time lost to
the business for £150 its worth a gamble.
My dad has owned serveral 405 XUD engined cars and has the head gasket down to about three hours if all goes well. Has the proper locking tools which
help. hopefully access wont be too bad etc so should be doable in a day.
well have just got the van delivered, its not too bad but is a bit scruffy and very dirty. and its clear that the head gasket has gone.
Hopefully nothing else is significantly wrong.
The bodywork is pretty good, no big dents or scrapes so we may be on to a good thing
For £150 its pretty good. Oh its also a non turbo diesel.
Well latest update, the vans engine was seized! so have got a 56k 405 engine to replace it for £70
Typical of the dealer not to mention it! Today was spent taking the van apart, to add to the list, new disks, pads as well as new wishbone bushes on
one side along with at least one CV joint.
But once this is done at least we will know the van is sound i guess.
Bought one as a stopgap four years ago with 108,000 on it, still got the bloody thing, can't kill it! Serviced every 6,000, few minor bits like the drop links, £140 for a clutch fitted, disks are £30 a pair, does 700 miles to a tank. Still on original springs and rear bushes, and I carry a lot of weight (in the back of the van, not that I'm a fat bastard), so can't be that bad. A tad on the slow side though.
yeah we are going to using it for awhile now,
have got the old engine out, man it was very difficult. The haynes wanted us to remove the front subframe 
but we managed to get it out with out doing that, had to lift the van into the air with a hoist and pull engine out from under the van, after lowering
on to the ground with the hoist beforehand
hopefully engine is now prepped and ready to go back in! Will be redoing the wishbone bushes and regreasing the CV joints as it seems silly not to do
it. Will prob do the clutch too.