Motor Vehicle Accident Repair Body Level 2
Grimsby Institute
Nuns Corner, Grimsby, DN34 5BQ
Available start dates
Available start dates
Course Summary
If you’ve ever dreamt about creating your own custom vehicle designs, then this course is for you! As well as learning how to paint, you’ll get the chance to repair vehicles in the accident repair centre, gaining hands-on industry experience. Our course embeds a good working approach, drawing from the knowledge and skills of the tutors from the automotive industry. All our courses focus on the future, including carbon awareness and electric and hybrid vehicle maintenance, operation and replacement. Offering hi-tech equipment to train and prepare for employment.
Course Details
Our new Motor Vehicle Accident Repair course will allow you to learn skills in spray painting and body work repair, with the opportunity to work on light and heavy vehicles in our state of the art, real-time workshop at the Nuns Corner Campus. The Accident Repair Centre includes a drive in booth for spray painting cars and a paint room for mixing and measuring paint. You will get the chance to create artistic designs on cars as well as panel beating and an element of mechanical work to facilitate aspects of repair.
A range of skills you can gain include: Skills/Knowledge in Health, Safety; Good Housekeeping in the Automotive Environment; Basics of Vehicle Body Fitting; Basics of Vehicle Mechanical Electrical Trim; Fundamental Vehicle Body Repair Techniques and Introduction to Vehicle MAG Welding.
How will it be delivered and assessed?
Your core training will be hands on and practical, with sessions in our industry standard workshops, including the new Elite Centre; our sustainable energy engineering hub where you will work on hybrid an electric vehicles.
Entry requirements
Level 2 – 3 GCSEs at grade 3 or above, preferably including either English or Maths
Your next steps...
Progression could be to level 3 or to an apprenticeship.
Successful learners have gone onto working in industry, including; Motor racing, Wind turbines, Plant/Agricultural equipment and forklift engineering.
If you are looking for furthering your study, you can apply to the Motorsports College, or the University Centre Grimsby to complete a HNC in Engineering.
Additional information
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