Pass rate
67.9%
Below average — 6.8 pts behind the 74.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 53 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £45–£151
2010 Citroen Berlingo Multispace MOT pass rate
- 2010
- People carrier
- typical 93,507 mi
Only 53 tests of this exact model and year are in the DVSA data, below the 100 we ask for before a page goes in the index. The figures are still shown, because they are the only ones there are.
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Most common fault
Lamps & electrics
22.7% of faults · 12.2% nationally
Part only £6–£18 for Registration plate lamp inoperative (multiple lamps). What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2019 86.6% pass
- Avoid 2010 67.9% pass · this year
Across the 12 years on record, a spread of 18.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 54.1%
- Typical mileage
- 94k mi
The 2010 Citroen Berlingo Multispace MOT pass rate is 67.9% of its MOT tests — 6.8 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 22.7% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.9× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 22.7% of everything recorded on the 2010 Citroen Berlingo Multispace, against 12.2% nationally — 10.5 points above. Walk round the car with the lights on before the test: bulbs, indicators and number-plate lamps are the cheapest failures to prevent and among the most common.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, people carriers this age and mileage expect about 74.7%; this one manages 67.9% — 6.8 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 27% of this model’s typical repairs come in under £30 in parts — the failures here tend to be the kind that need a garage rather than a bulb.
Written from this page's own figures: fault shares against the national composition, the like-for-like pass rate, and the priced repair list. How these are worked out
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How does the 2010 Citroen Berlingo Multispace compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 74.7%, so this figure is 6.8 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 54.1%. The median 2010 Citroen Berlingo Multispace in this dataset had covered 93,507 mi.
The single most recorded failure item is "Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated", noted on 15.09% of tests.
- 53 recorded tests behind this page.
- 67.9% overall pass rate, 54.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Citroen Berlingo Multispace, the average is 83.7% — best year 2019 (86.6%), worst 2010 (67.9%).
Figures count every completed test on this vehicle-year in the dataset, including retests. See methodology for the exact definition.
This page's data
- Tests analysed
- 53
- Typical mileage (median)
- 93,507 mi
- Make and model
- Citroen Berlingo Multispace
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Body Panel Repair
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Berlingo Multispace MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 52% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Citroen Berlingo Multispace is most common
Across all Berlingo Multispace model years on record (2010–2021): 4,802 Citroen Berlingo Multispace cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 11,278 tests. Sheffield (S) has the most, with 198 cars tested there. Cars are counted by the postcode area of the MOT station, so this is where they were tested, not necessarily where their owners live.
| # | Postcode area | Cars | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sheffield (S) | 198 | 88.8% |
| 2 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 160 | 83.7% |
| 3 | Portsmouth (PO) | 157 | 86.7% |
| 4 | Bristol (BS) | 129 | 82.7% |
| 5 | Plymouth (PL) | 119 | 88.9% |
| 6 | Swansea (SA) | 103 | 87.3% |
| 7 | Brighton (BN) | 98 | 78.9% |
| 8 | Truro (TR) | 85 | 82.1% |
| 9 | Edinburgh (EH) | 80 | 71.5% |
| 10 | Peterborough (PE) | 80 | 89.6% |
| 11 | Leicester (LE) | 75 | 84.1% |
| 12 | Ashford (TN) | 72 | 89.5% |
| 13 | Derby (DE) | 71 | 85.3% |
| 14 | Birmingham (B) | 70 | 82.3% |
| 15 | Exeter (EX) | 69 | 87.2% |
| 16 | Nottingham (NG) | 68 | 86.3% |
| 17 | Glasgow (G) | 67 | 77.7% |
| 18 | Ipswich (IP) | 67 | 82.5% |
| 19 | Gloucester (GL) | 65 | 83.0% |
| 20 | Wrexham (LL) | 63 | 83.6% |
The twenty areas with the most Citroen Berlingo Multispace cars in the record, sorted by car count — sort the columns for a different question. Cars tested at a station whose postcode area could not be resolved are counted in the model's total but in no area, so the shares add up to slightly under 100% even across every area, and an area's cars are a subset of the model's. Pass rate is blank below 30 tests in an area, where a percentage is noise rather than a finding. How this model's pass rate varies by postcode →
Regional pass rates for the Berlingo Multispace
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 31 | 61.3% |
Regions come from the postcode area recorded at the test station. Areas on region borders are assigned to the region with the majority of their population.
What fails a 2010 Berlingo Multispace
Everything a tester recorded on this vehicle, grouped into the inspection sections that produced it. The notch on each bar is the national share, so you can see at a glance whether this car is unusual or just ordinary.
A test can record several items, so these percentages do not add up to 100%. The exact strings, with prices, are in the full DVSA record at the bottom of this page.
Before your test
Three checks worth doing on a 2010 Berlingo Multispace
These are not generic tips — they are the faults recorded most often on this exact model, rewritten as things you can check yourself. All three take about ten minutes and cost nothing.
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Check the exhaust and emissions 7.5% of tests
“on or after 01/07/2008 emissions exceed manufacturer's specified limit”
Listen for a blow at idle and have someone rev it gently. Then look at the tailpipe smoke: blue is oil, white when warm is coolant, black is over-fuelling. Any of those and the emissions test is the least of it.
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Check the lights 7.5% of tests
“registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources”
Switch everything on and walk round the car: both headlamps on dip and main, every indicator, both brake lights, reverse, fog and the two number-plate lamps. A bulb is a few pounds and a five-minute job.
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Check the suspension joints 3.8% of tests
“ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt”
With the car parked on level ground, rock the top of each front wheel in and out while someone watches the suspension arm. Clunks, or rubber boots split and greasy, are what testers record here.
Shares are the proportion of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item, so they overlap: one test can record several.
What it costs to get a 2010 Berlingo Multispace through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £45–£151 — and 27% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £45–£151
- Cheapest common item: mirrors slightly damaged
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 27%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 53 MOT tests on this vehicle. They exclude diagnostics, retest fees and garage labour where the part is a DIY fit, and they are not figures from the DVSA dataset. Older and higher-mileage examples cost more than the average. How these estimates are built → · All MOT repair costs → · Cheapest cars to put through a test →
Every year of the Berlingo Multispace, side by side
12 model years on record, from 2010 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 67.9% to 86.6% — a spread of 18.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2010 67.9%joints constant velocity boot…
- 2011 76.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2012 74.5% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2013 80.6% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2014 78.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 83.2% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2016 83.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 83.8% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2018 84.3% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2019 86.6% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2020 84.1% wipers blade defective
- 2021 86.4% wipers does not clear the…
Colour is the pass rate on a fixed scale, so a block means the same thing on any model. Each year links to its own page with the full fault breakdown.
Compare the 2010 Citroen Berlingo Multispace with another year
The raw pass rate mostly measures age. The year comparison adds the like-for-like figure, the mileage bands and the repair bill.
Other 2010 people carriers with a similar record
Closest pass rates among 2010 people carriers with at least 200 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. Full rankings: best people carriers and worst people carriers.
The full DVSA record for the 2010 Citroen Berlingo Multispace 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 10 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 132 individual items recorded on this vehicle, and the same share across all cars nationally. A single test can record several items, so a row is not a percentage of tests.
| Category | Items | This car | Nationally | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 30 | 22.70% | 12.21% | +10.49 |
| Tyres | 23 | 17.40% | 19.76% | −2.36 |
| Suspension | 19 | 14.40% | 20.98% | −6.58 |
| Non-component advisories | 16 | 12.10% | 4.18% | +7.92 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 12 | 9.10% | 5.57% | +3.53 |
| Brakes | 11 | 8.30% | 20.89% | −12.59 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 8 | 6.10% | 5.52% | +0.58 |
| Visibility | 7 | 5.30% | 4.97% | +0.33 |
| Steering | 5 | 3.80% | 2.57% | +1.23 |
| Road Wheels | 1 | 0.80% | 0.75% | +0.05 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 15.1% | £80–250 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 7.5% | £80–250 |
| On or after 01/07/2008 emissions exceed manufacturer's specified limit Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 7.5% | £60–250 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 7.5% | £5–20 |
| Mirrors slightly damaged Visibility | Minor | 5.7% | £3–15 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 3.8% | £18–45 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 3.8% | £18–45 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 3.8% | £25–65 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.8% | £5–25 |
| On or after 01/07/2008 emissions test not completed because smoke levels are significantly in excess of the specified… Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 3.8% | £60–250 |
Severity is as recorded: Major and Dangerous fail the test outright; Minor and Advisory do not. Costs are estimates from typical UK parts prices — see how they are built.
What testers noted without failing the car
Advisories are the early warnings — the same parts a year or two before they fail. Reading them is how you tell a car that has been maintained from one that has been patched.
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 22.6% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 17.0% | £40–150 |
| Headlamp has a product on the lens so that the light output is severely reduced Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Advisory | 15.1% | £5–25 |
| Stop lamp with a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Advisory | 9.4% | £3–12 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 7.5% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Items removed from drivers view prior to test Non-component advisories | Advisory | 7.5% | £20–80 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 3 | 66.7% | 10,304 mi |
| 30-60k | 6 | 66.7% | 42,533 mi |
| 60-90k | 15 | 73.3% | 78,891 mi |
| 90-120k | 25 | 60.0% | 104,530 mi |
| 120k+ | 4 | 100.0% | 146,528 mi |
Source: 53 recorded tests on this vehicle-year. Every row above is recomputed from the same DVSA extract as the rest of the page — see the methodology.
2010 Berlingo Multispace MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2010 Citroen Berlingo Multispace?
67.9% of the 53 2010 Citroen Berlingo Multispace tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 74.7% for cars first used in 2010. First-attempt pass rate: 54.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2010 Citroen Berlingo Multispace?
The three most recorded items are joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (15.09%), joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (7.55%), on or after 01/07/2008 emissions exceed manufacturer's specified limit (7.55%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2010 Citroen Berlingo Multispace MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 66.7% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2010 Citroen Berlingo Multispace in this dataset had covered 93,507 mi.