Automotive Maintenance Level 1
Start Date: 2nd September 2024
- Length 1 Year
- Study Full Time
- Location West Lancashire College
More about the course
This is an exciting course which helps to provide students with a firm foundation of practical skills alongside the relevant technical knowledge of motor vehicles to enable them to progress in the industry.
This course is for school leavers aged 16-18, or adults over the age of 19 who are interested in motor vehicle servicing.
Entry requirements
- 4 GCSEs at Grade 2-9, including English and/or Maths
What will I achieve?
If you successfully complete this course, you will be awarded a diploma in Transport Maintenance Level 1, which is currently the recognised standard qualification in the motor trade, both in this country and overseas.
What will I learn?
- Health and safety practices
- Foundation skills
- Personal social development (PSD)
- Mechanical
- Light vehicle
- Electrical
- Valeting
- Electrically propelled awareness
What experience will I have?
- Guest speakers and industry specialist training: Pipewerx, D1 ultimate driving experience, AA and VOSA
- Lancashire fire service
- Work experience
- Excellent progression to employment
- Progression to apprenticeships
How am I assessed?
- Practical tasks
- Logbook of work
- Online test
Where can I progress?
Upon successful completion of the course, students may wish to progress onto Level 2 diploma in Light Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Principles.
Course costs
If you are 16-18 years old, you do not have to pay course tuition fees*.
If you need information on any financial support that may be available to you with fees or study costs on this course, please contact Student Services who can offer advice and assistance on accessing any financial support that may be available.
*Exam and registration fees will be paid by the college subject to satisfactory attendance and course completion.
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What can I do with a qualification in Motor Vehicle?
Daily tasks:
- Repairs and services air conditioning, heating and engine-cooling systems.
- Installs additional electrical amenities such as radio/CD players, aerials.
- Checks condition of electrical/electronic systems and carries out servicing tasks.
- Diagnoses faults in electrical/electronic circuitry, removes faulty components and fits replacements.
- Carries out routine maintenance checks on oil and air filters, brakes and other vehicle parts/systems.
- Reassembles, tests, adjusts and tunes the appropriate parts, systems or entire engine.
- Removes, dismantles, repairs and replaces defective parts and prepares new parts using appropriate tools.
- Visually checks, test drives or uses test equipment to diagnose engine and mechanical faults.
Daily tasks:
- Positions, secures and repairs external fittings including windows, doors, door handles, catches and roof attachments.
- Installs and repairs interior fittings including seats, seatbelts and fascia in cars, sinks and special features in caravans and mobile shops.
- Hammers out dents in bodywork, fills in small depressions or corroded areas in solder, plastic or other filler compound and replaces body panels using hand and power tools.
- Repairs damage to chassis and engine mountings using hydraulic rams, jacks and jigs.
- Selects, cuts, shapes and assembles materials to form parts of vehicle underframe, framework and body.
- Diagnoses job requirements or ascertains work specifications from drawings or instructions.
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Apprenticeship Information Event
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Wednesday 1st May 2024
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