We can accommodate single students or block bookings from schools, APs, CICs, and Trusts. The maximum number of pupils per group is 6.
Learning aims:
Preparation for carrying out routine service tasks
- Access to servicing guidance, including manufacturer’s workshop manuals, owner’s workshop manuals, and labour time manuals.
- Use of routine vehicle servicing schedules.
- Technical data: parts databases, technical data manuals, component or consumable product labelling and data sheets.
- Safe working practices when carrying out motor vehicle servicing.
- Important general safety considerations when working in an automotive workshop, include awareness of moving vehicles, impact, trapping and entanglement in moving parts or lifting equipment, use of appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE), and maintaining a tidy work area.
the basic mechanical skills a student needs to work in the automotive repair industry. - Safe working practices relevant to servicing procedures, include safe handling of engine oil and other fluids, correct disposal of waste products, dealing with spillages, correct use of tools and equipment, including those using compressed air, and avoiding contact with high-temperature fluids or components.
Routine service tasks
- Safe removal, disposal, and replacement of service consumable items, including engine oil, oil filter, air filter, fuel filter (diesel), and spark plugs (petrol).
- Condition assessment, safe removal, disposal, and replacement of other items checked during service, including tyres, engine coolant, headlight and ancillary bulbs, fuses, brake pads or shoes, batteries, auxiliary drive belts, and windscreen wipers.
- Fluid level checks and top-ups, including engine oil, clutch fluid, brake fluid, power steering fluid, automatic transmission fluid, gearbox oil, differential oil, windscreen washer fluid, and coolant.
Tools and equipment
- Safe and appropriate use of general and automotive workshop tools and equipment, including general hand tools, airline and tyre inflators, tyre pressure gauges, pneumatic impact wrenches, feeler gauges, tyre tread depth gauges, vehicle lifts and jacks, oil filter wrenches.
Completing servicing records
- Servicing records, including copies of any technical information used, service checklist, manufacturer’s part number of any replacement parts used type and grade of any replacement fluids, vehicle registration number, manufacturer, model, year of manufacture, and mileage.
