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Vehicle Respraying - Level 1
Start Date: 1st September 2025
Other start dates:
2nd September 2024
- Length 1 Year
- Study Full-Time
- Location Construction and Automotive Green Technology Centre
More about the course
Pursuing a career in accident repair and auto body repair painting means you can gain entry-level positions with a long list of potential employers. Better still, you don't need a university degree to pursue these great career opportunities as a Refinishing Prep or Auto Body Technician.
This Level 1 course covers the skills and knowledge required to work within the auto-finishing world. You will be introduced to a range of professional equipment, finishes and techniques and apply your growing skillset to practical assessments, tasks, and challenges.
Accredited by City and Guilds, this introductory qualification is an essential stepping stone for any aspiring auto-finisher or body-sprayer, providing a solid basis for progression onto a Level 2 diploma and a lucrative career.
Sponsored by Lechler, you will work with professional respraying equipment, materials and finishes throughout your studies.
Entry requirements:
- A passion for all things motor vehicle
You will be required to attend an interview to ascertain your suitability for the course.
What will I achieve?
Upon successful completion of this course, you will receive a Level 1 Diploma in Vehicle Respraying.
What will I learn?
- The key aspects of Health and Safety in the workshop
- The essential tools and equipment required for body respray
- How to valet vehicles
- An introduction to missing and applying foundation materials
- Aspects of vehicle technology
- Various masking techniques
How is the course taught?
- Presentations
- Task-based exercises
- Practical demonstrations
- 1:1 support
- Tutorials and lectures
You will be working within Kidderminster College's Construction and Automotive Green Technology Centre, where you will be repairing and deconstructing the numerous cars that we have on-site.
How am I assessed?
- Practical assignments
- Coursework
- Presentations
- Classwork
Work experience opportunities:
This practical course will see you gain industry work experience through tasks, exercises, and trips. We aim to organise a visit to the Lechler main site so that you can experience different working environments and other main street paint shops demonstrating how a body shop works and what is entailed daily.
English and Maths:
English will help you understand terminology within the sector and maths will be embedded to help you understand mixing ratios and ratios of paint to be abled.
Where can I progress?
Upon completion of this course, you can go on to study a Level 2 Diploma in Vehicle Respraying or a two-year, hands-on apprenticeship.
You will need to pass the first year of this qualification to progress to the second.
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Meet our tutors and students
Adam Griffin
Green Technology Centre ManagerAs a dedicated Site Manager, I oversee the centre's daily operations and support learners in their journey toward achieving their qualifications. My responsibilities include managing four departments: Motor Vehicle, Vehicle Respraying, Bricklaying, and Property Maintenance Operations, offering qualifications ranging from Level 1 to Level 3, as well as apprenticeship programs in these areas. With a background as a fully qualified motor mechanic and vehicle respraying tutor for eight years, I bring hands-on expertise to my role in management.
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What can I do with a qualification in Vehicle Respraying?
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.
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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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What can I do with a qualification in Vehicle Respraying?
Vehicle Technicians, Mechanics and Electricians
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.
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Vehicle Body Builders and Repairers
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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