Berlingo diesel VTR with the wrong engine in.

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Re: Berlingo diesel VTR with the wrong engine in.

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The VIN is also on your V5.
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Re: Berlingo diesel VTR with the wrong engine in.

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There are other locations where you can find the VIN. If you pop open the bonnet you will see (usually in the offside wing) in the channel the VIN stamped into the metalwork. It can also (on some cars; my C5 estate has it) somewhere under the rear passenger seat (on the C5 you flip the 'seat' vertical (not the upright part) and there is a plate with the VIN and other details on it).

When you post the VIN in the main forum it will be obscured, but the Moderators can still read it. However, if it is in a Private Message it is obscured in a way NOBODY can read it.

The reason the VIN is required is very simple. As we all know a car (when new) can be built with optional extras. For example, a C5 Mk1 VTR has the ability to have cruise control added, but it is not a standard item. Two C5 VTRs, built one after the other, may have a lot in common, but one might be the base VTR, while the other has a few customer options added. The VIN (to those people who have access to the Citroen Service system) will tell them EXACTLY what the car had when she came out of the factory. This is why Moderators have asked for it, as they DO want to help you. They have also added (within the last year or so) the security function to prevent lesser forum members (or just people visiting the forum) from reading that VIN, and possibly making unsavoury use of that information.
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Re: Berlingo diesel VTR with the wrong engine in.

Post by Michel »

pjbw wrote: 09 Dec 2018, 18:28 Marc,
Everybody else knows that I am referring to the car as a VTR, not the engine.
Are you English? Read the January 2014 brochure.
Might it have helped you if my topic had been titled 'Berlingo VTR with the wrong diesel engine in' ?


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Re: Berlingo diesel VTR with the wrong engine in.

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Re: Berlingo diesel VTR with the wrong engine in.

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Hell Razor5543
NOT Alistair or Simon
Thank you. I have been getting a bit uptight what with my inability to provide the data needed to have my questions answered.
No sign of a VIN anywhere else that I can see on my Berlingo. Because of the window under the windscreen being obscured there may be doubts about the validity/relevance of the VIN and engine number on the V5C and I don't want to raise any more hares!
Putting on my Sherlock Holmes jacket, what is written on the top piece of paper obscuring the VIN is leading me to contact the dealer. A long way away so I may or may not be back onto the forum.
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Re: Berlingo diesel VTR with the wrong engine in.

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Info. here.
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Re: Berlingo diesel VTR with the wrong engine in.

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Insults aside, I'll try again with another suggestion:

The only reason paper or some other material would of been placed there is to deliberately obscure or completely hide the official VIN - and to do that would require getting behind the dashboard. So on the face of it I would suggest that it has been hidden for a reason, unless the engine has been replaced at some time and whoever did it did not want the old VIN showing.

I really don't see the point of doing that though - because the VIN provides a lot more than just the engine fitted, so would still be relevant to the vehicle and all the options and equipment it was fitted with.

The V5 log book can be changed legally by providing the following evidence:
  • a receipt for the replacement engine
  • written evidence from the manufacturer
  • an inspection report provided for insurance purposes
  • written confirmation on headed paper from a garage (if the change took place before you bought the vehicle)
If you have your reg number I can determine the VIN from that, and from there I can provide you with a printout of the VIN so you can at least compare features of your car and equipment against what the VIN for the registration says should be there.

Whatever the case, if it was me, I would want to know what I had bought and its history.
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Re: Berlingo diesel VTR with the wrong engine in.

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Gibbo2286
Withdrawal symptoms!. That is the small Berlingo model before being superseded by the bigger current one, the VT, VTR, XTR variants.
My 2003 one with the (rather lazy) 1.9D diesel was the nicest car I have ever owned. 10 years, 144,000 miles. It let me down once when the missus put petrol in it! see 'My Cars'.
I was a volunteer diver for the local Social Care Trust and it was beginning to look a bit scruffy so I traded it for the bigger one assuming that some of its 'over-engineering' might be repeated.
I had got into a conversation with a co-owner in a French hotel car park on my way to Friedrichshafen in the little Berlingo. He said that in the late nineties Citroen were worried about the popularity of the Renault Kangoo and needed to compete. He said that they did not have a car to base it on and so they designed the Berlingo from scratch.
I think that they must have delegated this to someone who worked in the heyday of comfortable French cars: Citroen DS, Renault 16. Certainly after 10 years my one was as 'tight' as new. I know of owners of cars and vans with more than 250,000 miles up. I should never have sold it, just had it tidied up.
Then tragedy: Shortly after I bought my first VTR in 2013 I realised that it did not begin to compare with the small one it had replaced, except for the 'wrong' engine in my second VTR. Then I passed a Citroen shop in the Republic of Ireland and saw some new small ones. The manager said that what had happened was that Citroen UK were left with a number of unsold small ones when the bigger one was introduced and so these small ones were offloaded to the RoI.
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Re: Berlingo diesel VTR with the wrong engine in.

Post by pjbw »

GiveMeABreak
Thank you for persevering with me, I wrote this earlier today:
[Hell Razor5543
NOT Alistair or Simon
Thank you. I have been getting a bit uptight what with my inability to provide the data needed to have my questions answered.
No sign of a VIN anywhere else that I can see on my Berlingo. Because of the window under the windscreen being obscured there may be doubts about the validity/relevance of the VIN and engine number on the V5C and I don't want to raise any more hares!
Putting on my Sherlock Holmes jacket, what is written on the top piece of paper obscuring the VIN is leading me to contact the dealer. A long way away so I may or may not be back onto the forum.]
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Re: Berlingo diesel VTR with the wrong engine in.

Post by GiveMeABreak »

Yes, there’s need to repeat the post, it’s there for all to see.

In the absence of any further info that has been repeatedly asked for to try and resolve the matter, there is little point in trying to pursue it further. Do create a new post if you have a new issue, but this thread is being locked and moved out of the technical forum as it is serving no further purpose.
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