Berlingo Engine Rattle And Stalled Wont Start

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I swear my berlingo is made out of 100% reject parts, has anyone else had issues with with these vans ? ive just changed both wish bones, both sprints, drive shaft seal, no end of electrial problems down to earth bolts which never seemed to have been fitted correctly in the first place, the list is endless. when I first had the van on a short run it was like I was pressing the gas down to the floor and I wasn't. I pulled in the side of the road and turned off the engine and it just kept on reving like mad and finally let out a load of smoke with a big bang. Garage just said the battery went flat and its ran fine for the past year, other than various stuff breaking, its only done 70k! Well suspect its more like done 270k going by the endless trouble.

 

More to the point of today, I just came back from a 30mile drive and in the last mile, the engine rattled like mad. my dad has a berlingo and we solved a engine rattle as 3 of the glow plugs had died, tho that was only on starting it, so not a big deal. My van has the same kind of rattle now, and when I got to our driveway it just cut out and no longer will start. It turns over fine just when I think its about to start it cuts out again. Do I assume now there is a fuel problem somewhere ??

 

Has anyone had so many issues with these vans or is it just me ? its pretty much has been breaking down every 10 miles I drive, and the van almost never goes out the driveway!

 

its a 51 plate 1.9D berlingo.