This qualification is designed to provide students with essential automotive-related skills and support a training pathway for further studies or entry-level roles in the automotive sector. Students gain foundational knowledge in mechanical automotive engineering, with practical trade skills, industry safety awareness, and literacy/numeracy support.

Course Content

• Good work habits and safe work practices in the automotive industry

• Knowledge of automotive lubricants

• Terminology used in the motor industry

• Remove and refit road wheels on a vehicle

• Remove and replace a lamp on a motor vehicle

• Prepare a vehicle or machine for use, and shutdown after use

• Knowledge of vehicle documentation and primary systems of a vehicle

• Motor industry engineering tasks

• Tools and equipment used in the motor industry

• Disassembling and reassembling a four-stroke multi-cylinder engine

• Interchanging and balancing wheels

• Knowledge of new and emerging technology in the motor industry

• Basic tuning on a four-stroke petrol engine

• Perform general servicing checks on a motor vehicle

• Select and use hand tools and workshop equipment

• Literacy

• Numeracy