Vehicle Maintenance / Automotive Steering & Suspension

Set of two PowerPoints made for Level 1 Vehicle Maintenance and Repair course - The first covers Steering . There are 48 slides in total and makes use of the animations that PowerPoint offers - It also has an embedded online video so requires internet connection for slides 6, 10 and 12 to work, you’ll need to allow external media also. This lesson covers all steering components starting with steering wheels following components all the way to the wheels. Touches on steering geometry - Toe, Camber, Castor and Ackermann.

The second has 46 slides and covers suspension systems - compares coils, leafs, torsion bars and air suspension. It also has an embedded online video so requires internet connection for slide 9 to work (also, make sure you use the subtitle option. Looks at other components - shocks, ball joints etc and looks at independant vs dependant suspension systems.

Be sure to use the slideshow feature or you’ll have a lot of overlapping images.

There are some slides that may require answers to be revealed by clicking on the pictures or text - I have pointed these out in the slide comments.

I have also included a worksheet to accompany the lesson that can be printed out for students to complete, or sent to them via e-mail to complete on word.

I taught levels 1 up to 3 of Vehicle Maintenance & Repair at a further education college in the UK for 6 years delivering the IMI vehicle qualifications until Jan 2024 before I moved away from education.

I found the resources available to me when I started pretty poor and didn’t engage the students particularly well, so I made my own set of PowerPoints that cover pretty much all of it so far, so thought i’d share some of them up here and see if there’s any takers. If there is, i’ll put them all up and hopefully they’ll come in useful.

I don’t want to charge a ton for these, but a good few hours go into making these PowerPoints so i’m just getting a little back for my time and hopefully they come in useful for others.