All generations and engines together · 6,452 MOT tests in the 2025 data · typical mileage at age 7: 47k
One of the worst people carriers to buy at this age, and worse than most per mile driven. Watch corrosion and lights & electrics. A risky used buy. Check the MOT history for repeating corrosion advisories before you go.
Owner folklore from forums and the motoring press, with how well each report stands up. Most of it never shows up in an MOT, which is why this section exists at all.
The washer fluid reservoir or its pipework leaks and the fluid drips straight onto the fuse box below, corroding the terminals. Owners report lost dipped headlights and sidelights first, then wider electrical gremlins as the corrosion spreads through the loom. Bills run from around £300 for a clean and reseal up to £1,400-£2,000 for a full rewire when it's left too long. This lines up with corrosion being the model's measured MOT weak point, it's just the fuse box and wiring loom taking the damage rather than the bodywork.
The EPAS motor can fail outright, leaving the steering suddenly heavy with no warning. It has come up repeatedly on cars around 34,000-50,000 miles. Citroen acknowledged the fault and covered repairs as a goodwill gesture on cars up to 80,000 miles and 8 years old, though some owners still faced a diagnostic charge. A full EPAS motor replacement outside that goodwill window is a four-figure job.
The EGS6 automated manual, sold as an alternative to a proper torque converter automatic, gets consistent complaints for slow, jerky changes and for not always upshifting unless the driver eases off the throttle or uses the paddles. Some owners report the shifting getting worse with age, and Citroen has struggled to supply replacement gearboxes when units fail outright. Doesn't affect manual or nothing-special automatic cars.
Diesel models can throw repeated "antipollution fault" warnings, in some cases with the engine cutting out on the move, most likely down to DPF blockage or soot build-up on cars used mainly for short runs. One reported case saw eight cutouts on a single motorway journey at around 58,000 miles. Clearing a blocked filter or replacing it isn't officially acknowledged as a pattern fault by Citroen, so budget anywhere from a forced regen (cheap) to a DPF replacement (four figures) depending how far it's gone.
The rear silencer box itself is stainless, but it hangs on mild-steel brackets that rust through and let the whole box drop, sometimes on cars as young as five or six years old. It's a known annoyance rather than a safety-critical failure and a competent exhaust fitter can weld in stainless replacements relatively cheaply, but owners argue over whether it's a design flaw or just normal wear in a wet climate.
Ranked from this model’s own MOT record, then from what owners report.
Saveable checklistThe physical checks its own defect data says are worth your time, most telling first.
These judge the seller’s upkeep rather than the model, and they are where the haggling money is.
Drawn from the reports above rather than the MOT data. These are the model-specific ones.
Computed from DVSA MOT results, all of Great Britain, 2025. Nothing here is opinion.
Share of tests where each item was recorded. The dark tick is the class average across all tracked models; bars are scaled within each group.
The rows that judge the model rather than its keeper. 5,429 tests in this band.
Tyres, pads and stone chips say more about how the car was driven and maintained than about how it was built.
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