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Aircon on my Berlingo has been playing up since I've had it (it was old and cheap).
Some people in China I met on ebay have sent me Diagbox and an Authentic (?) Citroen diagnostics box and so yesterday I spent a bit of time trying to troubleshoot a few things.
For the aircon the issue is reported as a short-circuit to earth in the BSM on the control of the variable compressor cylinder (sorry - translating it roughly from French). I suspect that either said control is leaking electricity either at the compressor end (compressor needs replacing?) or the BSM has an issue (BSM R05) and the BSM needs replacing.
Any advice? I can pick up a second hand BSM for about 50€ here, so not a huge investment, but if the compressor is the issue then it's still money I could spend on something else.
Get on a Citroen forum if you want help with Lexia / Diagbox, there are plenty out there including at least one for Berlingos.
Basically if you want to own any French car it helps to be an electrician.
Thanks, I was wondering more specifically about opinions on whether it was likely to be the BSM or the compressor, or ways I could troubleshoot. I know my way relatively well round diagbox, and have the fault code, just wondered about troubleshooting the actual fault.Get on a Citroen forum if you want help with Lexia / Diagbox, there are plenty out there including at least one for Berlingos.
Basically if you want to own any French car it helps to be an electrician.
Had loads of cheap frenchies as second cars I maintain/repair on a shoe string and treat like dirt. Never had one with duff electrics. Plenty of mechanical problems poxy/cheap/poorly designed/modular for manufacturing efficiency parts fail once they get over about 80,000 miles. The suspension and steering components don't tend to last as long as German and Jap equivalents. You get loads of weird little problems and things that fail that really shouldn't.
A mate had an early 2000's Laguna with electric everything. It suffered the classic blocked drain channels, most Renaults of the late nineties to 2000's suffered (Clio sunroofs 😆 ), which pissed water all over the BSI unit. Let me tell you it was a world of pain for him he's not forgotten (gunas of that vintage were variable to say the least), especially when the re-conned unit he got was faulty as well 😀
Basically if you want to own any French car it helps to be an electrician.
cobblers - its the same for any modern car if you get a duffer. last duffer i had was a VW absolute utter electrical and mecahnical turd.....