Remove and install heavy vehicle rubber and direct glazed windscreens

KHU-AUT-0487

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to remove and install rubber and urethane glazed heavy vehicle windscreens. This unit involves preparing for the task, selecting and using specialist tools and equipment, removing the damaged windscreen, cutting a replacement windscreen according to original size, preparing and applying windscreen sealing rubber, applying primers, activators and adhesives according to manufacturer specifications, cleaning and finishing the windscreen, and completing workplace processes and documentation. The unit applies to those who work in the automotive glazing service and repair industry. The windscreens include those of trucks, buses and coaches. No licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.