Automotive Air Conditioning (Installation and Servicing)
Basic Car Maintenance
Introduction to Multiplexing and CAN Bus
Oscilloscope for Automotive Diagnosis
Vehicle Emission Testing
Vehicle Inspectors' Preparatory Course
Vehicle Wheel Alignment
How to enrol
Further information

Automotive Air (Installation and Servicing)

This short course is designed to cover the installation and servicing of air conditioning systems.

The course includes:

• Environmental considerations
• Industry codes of practice
• Theory of heat movement
• Types of refrigerant
• Air conditioning components
• Controls and ancillary equipment
• Evacuation and charging systems
• Servicing, fault finding and repair
• Recovery and recycling of refrigerants

Upon successful completion of this course you will receive a Unitec Certificate of Attendance

Fees: $508.56 (incl GST)

2013 Dates	Duration	Days	Times	Course	Code	Class
1 Jul - 3 Jul	3 days	Tue/Wed/Thur	8.30am - 4.30pm	TTEC	S056	6748
25 Nov - 27 Nov	3 days	Tue/Wed/Thur	8.30am - 4.30pm	TTEC	S056	6749

Location:

Department of Transport Technology, Mt Albert campus, Entry 4, Building 100, Room 1003 and Building 86, Room 1001, and *Building 146, Room 1003

To enrol please complete a Short Course Enrolment Form. All fees include GST. If there are insufficient numbers registered for a course Unitec reserves the right to postpone or cancel.

Basic Car Maintenance

This short course is designed to give you the skills and knowledge that will enable you to carry out minor maintenance and repairs to your own vehicles.

The programme covers:

• Basic tuning
• Minor repairs
• Oil and filter servicing
• Basic maintenance (including brakes and cooling systems)

Upon the successful completion of the course, participants will receive a Unitec Certificate of Attendance.

Fees : $508.56 (incl GST)

2013 Dates	Duration	Day	Times	Course	Code	Class
28 Feb - 23 May *Class cancelled	-	-	-	TTEC	S057	3297
15 Aug - 31 Oct	12 weeks	Thursday	6pm - 8pm	TTEC	S057	6754

Location:

Department of Transport Technology, Mt Albert campus, Entry 4, Building 108, Room 2027 and Building 100, Room 1002 and Room 1003

To enrol please complete a Short Course Enrolment Form. All fees include GST. If there are insufficient numbers registered for a course Unitec reserves the right to postpone or cancel.

Introduction to Multiplexing and CAN Bus

This course is designed to give automotive electricians a range of general principles of design, operation and testing techniques for the new CAN Bus systems. There will also be brief demonstrations of testing techniques.

The course includes:

• Basics of CAN Bus and multiplexing, including history, advantages, examples, distributed functionality and signal protocols.
• CAN Bus specifics are cited, with slow and fast speed, CAN Bus architecture, terminating resistors and vehicle examples.
• Diagnostic issues will be applied to vehicles, including using oscilloscopes or meters for diagnosis, dead bus or trouble code diagnosis, bus architecture, module swapping and VIN programming, and sample diagnostic problems.
• Voltage drop principles are compared with wiring voltages.
• Fibre optic systems and strategy of repair.

Upon successful completion of this course you will receive a Unitec Certificate of Attendance.

Fees: $208.00 (incl GST) + NZQA unit costs

2013 Dates	Duration	Days	Times	Course	Code	Class
24 Apr *Cancelled	-	-	-	TTEC	S086	-
2 Oct	4 hours	Thursday	8.30am - 1.00pm	TTEC	S086	6755

Location:

Department of Transport Technology, Mt Albert campus, Entry 4, Building 84, Room 1001

To enrol please complete a Short Course Enrolment Form. All fees include GST. If there are insufficient numbers registered for a course Unitec reserves the right to postpone or cancel.

Oscilloscope for Automotive Diagnosis

This short course is designed to give automotive electricians an overview of basic and advanced techniques of using a digital oscilloscope for vehicle diagnosis.
This includes :

• Overview of available oscilloscopes
• Basic adjustments and triggering to capture a pattern
• Sample patterns: ECU input signals and output commands, and what to look for that’s either good or bad
• Ignition patterns and how to get them: Secondary voltage, primary voltage and primary amperage patterns
• Relative compression testing: Using DC motor CEMF characteristics, high amp pickups, and ignition triggering to diagnose low compression
• Fuel pump testing: Using low amp probes to diagnose intermittent problems
• Other applications: Pressure/vacuum transducers at fuel rail, intake or exhaust manifolds

Upon successful completion of this course you will receive a Unitec Certificate of Attendance.

Fee: $208.00 (incl GST)

2013 Dates	Duration	Days	Times	Course	Code	Class
3 May	4 hours	Friday	8.30am - 1.00pm	TTEC	S086	3299
4 Oct	4 hours	Friday	8.30am - 1.00pm	TTEC	S086	6756

Location:

Department of Transport Technology, Mt Albert campus, Entry 4, Building 100, Room 1001

To enrol please complete a Short Course Enrolment Form. All fees include GST. If there are insufficient numbers registered for a course Unitec reserves the right to postpone or cancel.

Vehicle Emission Testing

This short course has been developed in consultation with industry to ensure that emission testing technicians have the ability to apply vehicle emission testing methods on a range of vehicles, and to carry out their testing according to the correct procedure.

This includes:

• Source of emission from a range of vehicles
• Types of emission gases
• Testing methods as per industry practice
• Measuring exhaust gases
• Data interpretation
• Exhaust system analysis
• Exhaust system efficiency

Upon successful completion of the course participants will receive a Unitec Certificate of Attendance.

Fee: $312.00 approx (incl GST)

2013 Dates	Duration	Days	Times	Course	Code	Class
30 Apr - 1 May	2 days	Tue/Wed	8.30am- 4pm	TTEC	S200	3300
9 Jul - 10 Jul	2 days	Tue/Wed	8.30am- 4pm	TTEC	S200	6757
24 Sep - 25 Sep	2 days	Tue/Wed	8.30am- 4pm	TTEC	S200	6758

Location:

Department of Transport Technology, Mt Albert campus, Entry 4, Building 100, Room 1001

To enrol please complete a Short Course Enrolment Form. All fees include GST. If there are insufficient numbers registered for a course Unitec reserves the right to postpone or cancel.

Vehicle Inspectors' Preparatory Course

This short course is designed for people in the automotive industry who want to carry out vehicle inspections. Upon completion of this course participants may apply to land transport New Zealand for assessment.

The course includes:

• Customer service protocols
• Assessment of vehicle structural integrity
• Lighting and signalling system
• Vision requirements
• Door and hinged panel
• Vehicle interior systems
• Brake systems
• Steering and suspension
• Wheels and tyres exhaust systems
• Documentation of inspection

Upon successful completion of the course, students will receive a Unitec Certificate of Attendance.

Fees: $780.00 (incl GST)

2013 Dates	Duration	Days	Times	Course	Code	Class
12 Mar - 23 Mar *Course Cancelled	2 weeks	-	-	TTEC	S075	-
9th Apr - 20th Apr	2 weeks	T/W/Th & Sat	5.30pm - 8.30pm 9am - 4pm (Sat)	TTEC	S075	3303
29 Apr - 3 May *Cancelled	-	-	-	TTEC	S075	-
14 May - 25 May	2 weeks	T/W/Th & Sat	5.30pm - 8.30pm 9am - 4pm (Sat)	TTEC	S075	3305
11 Jun - 22 Jun	2 weeks	T/W/Th & Sat	5.30pm - 8.30pm 9am - 4pm (Sat)	TTEC	S075	3306
12 - 23 Jun	2 weeks	T/W/Th & Sat	5.30pm - 8.30pm 9am - 4pm (Sat)	TTEC	S075	3473
8 Jul - 12 Jul	1 week	Monday - Friday	9am - 4pm	TTEC	S075	6759
23 Jul - 3 Aug	2 weeks	T/W/Th & Sat	5.30pm - 8.30pm 9am - 4pm (Sat)	TTEC	S075	6760
13 Aug - 24 Aug	2 weeks	T/W/Th & Sat	5.30pm - 8.30pm 9am - 4pm (Sat)	TTEC	S075	6761
3 Sep - 14 Sep	2 weeks	T/W/Th & Sat	5.30pm - 8.30pm 9am - 4pm (Sat)	TTEC	S075	6762
23 Sep - 27 Sep	1 week	Monday - Friday	9am - 4pm	TTEC	S075	6763
8 Oct - 19 Oct	2 weeks	T/W/Th & Sat	5.30pm - 8.30pm 9am - 4pm (Sat)	TTEC	S075	6764
5 Nov - 16 Nov	2 weeks	T/W/Th & Sat	5.30pm - 8.30pm 9am - 4pm (Sat)	TTEC	S075	6765
25 Nov - 29 Nov	1 week	Monday - Friday	9am - 4pm	TTEC	S075	6766

Location:

Department of Transport Technology, Mt Albert campus, Entry 4, Building 85, Room 1001, and Building 108, Room 1065

To enrol please complete a Short Course Enrolment Form. All fees include GST. If there are insufficient numbers registered for a course Unitec reserves the right to postpone or cancel.

Vehicle Wheel Alignment

This short course has been developed in consultation with industry to ensure that wheel alignment technicians have the ability to interpret and apply principles of vehicle steering and suspension, and to carry out their work according to the correct procedure.This includes:

• Suspension and steering terminology
• Pre-alignment checks
• Steering faults symptoms
• Steering system fault symptom analysis
• Visual inspection
• Steering angle measurement
• Components replacement

Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive a Unitec Certificate of Attendance.

Fees: $260.00 (incl GST)

2013 Dates	Duration	Days	Times	Course	Code	Class
30 Apr - 1 May *Cancelled	-	-	-	TTEC	S184	-
9 Jul - 10 Jul	2 days	Tue/Wed	8.30am - 4pm	TTEC	S184	6767
24 Sep - 25 Sep	2 days	Tue/Wed	8.30am - 4pm	TTEC	S184	6768

Location:

Department of Transport Technology, Mt Albert campus, Entry 4, Building 84, Room 1001, and Building 100, Room 1003

To enrol please complete a Short Course Enrolment Form. All fees include GST. If there are insufficient numbers registered for a course Unitec reserves the right to postpone or cancel.

 

How to enrol

Please complete the Short Course Enrolment Form, providing your full details and the code of the class you wish to attend. However, as places are limited, it is recommended you apply early. Applications will be accepted up to 7 days prior to class commences. If there are insufficient numbers registered for a course Unitec reserves the right to postpone or cancel. If classes are cancelled, your fee will be refunded in full.

Payment can be made by EFTPOS, cheque or credit card.

Further information

For more information please contact Student Central on study@unitec.ac.nz or 0800 10 95 10 or +64 9 815 2945.

 

Last edited: 23 April 2013