Pass rate
83.9%
Around average — 0.1 pts behind the 84.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,135 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £33–£100
2016 Citroen Berlingo Multispace MOT pass rate
- 2016
- People carrier
- typical 47,023 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
25.3% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2019 86.6% pass
- Avoid 2010 67.9% pass
Across the 12 years on record, a spread of 18.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 80.9%
- Typical mileage
- 47k mi
The 2016 Citroen Berlingo Multispace MOT pass rate is 83.9% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 25.3% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.6× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 19.6% of everything recorded on the 2016 Citroen Berlingo Multispace, against 12.2% nationally — 7.4 points above. Tyres are still the single largest share at 25.3%, but at 19.8% nationally that one is ordinary. 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.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 55% of the repairs this model fails on cost under £30 in parts. The pass rate matters less than what a bad afternoon at the test centre actually costs you.
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 2016 Citroen Berlingo Multispace compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 84.0%, so this figure is 0.1 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 80.9%. The median 2016 Citroen Berlingo Multispace in this dataset had covered 47,023 mi.
84% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Diesel, which passed 83.2% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 84.3% of the time, April–September 83.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 4.05% of tests.
- 1,135 recorded tests behind this page.
- 83.9% overall pass rate, 80.9% 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
- 1,135
- Typical mileage (median)
- 47,023 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
Number Plate Lamp
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Berlingo Multispace MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 62% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (84% of tests).
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 | 221 | 87.8% |
| South West | 146 | 84.2% |
| Scotland | 139 | 77.0% |
| Yorkshire | 124 | 81.5% |
| North West | 115 | 86.1% |
| East of England | 111 | 84.7% |
| West Midlands | 71 | 84.5% |
| North East | 63 | 85.7% |
| East Midlands | 62 | 83.9% |
| Wales | 56 | 85.7% |
| London | 26 | 73.1% |
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 2016 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 2016 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 lights 4.0% 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 windscreen 1.3% of tests
“windscreen damaged”
Check the driver’s side of the screen within the swept area for chips and cracks; anything larger than 10mm in the driver’s central view is a fail. Most chips can be resin-repaired for far less than a new screen.
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Check the coil springs 1.2% of tests
“coil spring fractured or broken”
Look up inside each wheel arch with a torch, all the way round the spring. A snapped spring usually breaks at the very bottom coil, where a quick glance will not reach.
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 2016 Berlingo Multispace through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £33–£100 — and 55% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £33–£100
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot split or…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 55%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 1,135 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 2016 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 2016 people carriers with a similar record
Closest pass rates among 2016 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 2016 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 1,404 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyres | 356 | 25.30% | 19.76% | +5.54 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 276 | 19.60% | 12.21% | +7.39 |
| Brakes | 248 | 17.60% | 20.89% | −3.29 |
| Suspension | 174 | 12.40% | 20.98% | −8.58 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 125 | 8.90% | 5.57% | +3.33 |
| Non-component advisories | 76 | 5.40% | 4.18% | +1.22 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 70 | 5.00% | 5.52% | −0.52 |
| Visibility | 61 | 4.30% | 4.97% | −0.67 |
| Steering | 12 | 0.90% | 2.57% | −1.67 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 6 | 0.40% | 1.76% | −1.36 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 4.0% | £5–20 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 3.7% | £80–250 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.9% | £5–25 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.9% | £5–25 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 1.7% | £80–250 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.7% | £3–12 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.5% | £3–12 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.3% | £80–200 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 1.2% | £25–65 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.2% | £45–95 |
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 | 14.8% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 10.1% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 7.3% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 5.7% | £45–110 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 5.1% | £25–65 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 5.1% | £40–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 309 | 87.7% | 19,394 mi |
| 30-60k | 468 | 85.9% | 45,711 mi |
| 60-90k | 238 | 79.8% | 71,870 mi |
| 90-120k | 65 | 78.5% | 100,235 mi |
| 120k+ | 54 | 70.4% | 155,730 mi |
Source: 1,135 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.
2016 Berlingo Multispace MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2016 Citroen Berlingo Multispace?
83.9% of the 1,135 2016 Citroen Berlingo Multispace tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 84.0% for cars first used in 2016. First-attempt pass rate: 80.9%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2016 Citroen Berlingo Multispace?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (4.05%), joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (3.70%), position lamp not working (1.94%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2016 Citroen Berlingo Multispace MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 87.7% of the time, falling to 70.4% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2016 Citroen Berlingo Multispace in this dataset had covered 47,023 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2016 Citroen Berlingo Multispace?
Diesel: 83.2% pass rate across 955 tests. Petrol: 87.2% pass rate across 180 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2016 Citroen Berlingo Multispace MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 84.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 83.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.