59.3%
Citroën Berlingo
Citroën Berlingo vs Peugeot Partner
Buying a used Citroën Berlingo or Peugeot Partner? Compare their MOT pass rates, common problems, mileage and how they hold up as they get older.
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MOT pass rate head to head
Initial MOT tests in 2025, retests excluded. The UK average across all cars is 72.3%.
62.5%
Peugeot Partner
3.2
percentage point gap in the Peugeot Partner's favour
A real gap, but not a decisive one on its own. The figures come from 184,227 tests of the Citroën Berlingo and 150,776 of the Peugeot Partner.
A pass rate is not a reliability score. It records whether cars met the roadworthiness standard on test day.
Which one holds up better with age?
A headline pass rate mixes three-year-old cars with fifteen-year-old ones. Split by age, you can see what each model does over time.
| Age at test | Berlingo | Partner |
|---|---|---|
| 3 to 5 years | 73.4% | 75.5% |
| 6 to 10 years | 58.7% | 61.4% |
| 11 years and over | 51.7% | 54.8% |
Both models age at much the same rate, losing around 21.3 percentage points between the youngest and oldest groups. Neither has an advantage worth paying for on this measure.
What each one fails on
The areas testers recorded most often across every failed 2025 test for each model, as a share of recorded failure items.
Citroën Berlingo
Peugeot Partner
Both models fail most often on lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment, which tells you what to look at on either. The difference between them is in what comes next on each list. These are recorded failure categories, not faults every car has.
The specific items testers wrote down
One level deeper than the category: the individual defects recorded most often on each model.
Citroën Berlingo
- Position lamp not working
- Stop lamp not working
- Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt
Peugeot Partner
- Position lamp not working
- Stop lamp not working
- Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt
What this comparison can't tell you
Everything above describes two models across the whole UK fleet. It says nothing about the one car in the advert. Two Berlingos of the same year and mileage can be worth thousands apart because of finance, a write-off, a theft record or a clocked odometer, none of which appear in MOT data.
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- Outstanding finance
- Write-off records
- Stolen markers
- Mileage history
- Previous keepers
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Citroën Berlingo vs Peugeot Partner FAQs
Is the Citroën Berlingo or the Peugeot Partner more likely to pass its MOT?
The Peugeot Partner passed 62.5% of its initial MOT tests in the DVSA 2025 data against 59.3% for the Citroën Berlingo, a gap of 3.2 percentage points. That is a fleet-wide average, not a prediction about the specific car you are looking at.
Does a higher MOT pass rate mean a more reliable car?
No. An MOT records whether a vehicle met the roadworthiness standard on the day it was tested. It does not test the engine, clutch or gearbox, and it does not measure how often a car breaks down. Pass rates are useful for comparing how two models are holding up across the whole UK fleet, and nothing more than that.
Which is cheaper to keep on the road, the Citroën Berlingo or the Peugeot Partner?
This data does not price servicing or repairs, so it cannot answer that directly. What it does show is what each model most often fails on, which is a fair guide to where the money goes. The Citroën Berlingo fails most often on lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment. The Peugeot Partner fails most often on lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment.
How do I check the actual Peugeot Partner I have found?
Enter its registration. A Carpeep car history check reports outstanding finance, insurance write-off markers, stolen markers, the mileage recorded at every MOT, previous keepers, tax and MOT status, import and export markers and scrapped status in one £15 report. None of that appears in model-level MOT statistics.
MOT figures are aggregated from the DVSA MOT Anonymised data set for 2025 (class 4 initial tests, retests excluded), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. MOT results describe roadworthiness at test, not mechanical reliability.