Seeking advice re longevity of a Citroen Berlingo

daveyjp

These engines are good for 200,000 miles, but with such low use it won't be high mileage which kills it.  It may be other issues relating to diesels doing low miles - injectors, pumps, fuel lines, DPF and associated sensors or the other problem - corrosion.

GrumpyDil

daveyjp said:

These engines are good for 200,000 miles, but with such low use it won't be high mileage which kills it.  It may be other issues relating to diesels doing low miles - injectors, pumps, fuel lines, DPF and associated sensors or the other problem - corrosion.

Corrected to 100k by OP which is around the average now based on 11 years.

sheslookinhot

GrumpyDil said:

daveyjp said:

These engines are good for 200,000 miles, but with such low use it won't be high mileage which kills it.  It may be other issues relating to diesels doing low miles - injectors, pumps, fuel lines, DPF and associated sensors or the other problem - corrosion.

Corrected to 100k by OP which is around the average now based on 11 years.

Just for clarity, the OP has stated mileage on their car is 28k.

The 100k was correcting a mistype from a statement by the AA

Goudy

These DV6 engines aren't bad.
They got used in all sorts of makes cars, Ford, Mini, Volvo, even Toyota used them in their Proace, so they are well known and easy to look after.

No car/engine is fault free, but it's how you go about looking after it and repairing it.
Servicing is just as much about checks as it is about changing oil and filters, so if you have found someone competent and trust worthy, that's a start. 
If not, I would suggest you find a local diesel specialist.


I think this year still used the Eolys system for the diesel particulate filter (DPF)
There is a special fluid that is added to the DPF that reduces the temperature needed to burn the soot to ash.
(This is totally different to Ad Blue. This engine/car is pre Ad Blue anyway).

It usually takes more than 600c to burn soot to ash, with Eolys that's reduced to around 450c. This means you get more reliable re generations of the DPF and they tend to work better in urban and short trip environments (like a small delivery van work go through). 

There's a small pouch of Eolys fluid that needs replacing every now and then.
It's hard to tell when this will be, but the more DPF regeneration, the sooner is will run out, but I seem to remember there's some sort of electronic metering system within the cars ECU system that is linked to the fuel flap opening (to count fill ups).

So it's worth running the tank down and filling up rather than continually topping off as topping off clocks the fuel flap counter more and you use more Eolys.

Mildly_Miffed

Goudy said:

even Toyota used them in their Proace

That'll be because the Proace is built in France (and briefly in Luton) by PSA/Stellantis, and is just a rebadged Citroen Jumpy/Dispatch, Peugeot Expert.

Same for the Proace City (Berlingo/Partner), Proace Max (Ducato/Relay/Boxer)