AUR20218 Certificate II in Automotive Air Conditioning Technology

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for AUR20218 ended on 11 November 2020 — 5 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments are not permitted today, unless ASQA has approved otherwise — for your organisation, for a class of RTOs, or for all RTOs. The one-year point this rule counts from — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register — fell earlier, on 13 November 2021. That date is arithmetic, not a day on which this instrument prohibited anything: s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355) commenced on 1 July 2025 and imposes nothing before then. RTOs registered by VRQA in Victoria or by the TAC in Western Australia are not covered by it.

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments in this product are not permitted today, so a course page advertising it is not permitted either — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

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Product type
Qualification
Training package
AUR — Automotive Retail, Service and Repair Training Package
Currency period ends
11 November 2020
Latest release
Release 1 · 29 March 2018
Supersedes
AUR20216
Superseded by
AUR20220 equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. AUR20218Superseded — equivalentCertificate II in Automotive Air Conditioning Technology
  2. equivalent
  3. AUR20220CurrentCertificate II in Automotive Air Conditioning Technology

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • AUR20216AUR20218not equivalent28 March 2018

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

  • AUR20218AUR20220equivalent12 November 2020

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for AUR20218 and for its training package AUR (release 9.0), with the name and date the register publishes for each file. We link them; we have not read them, and nothing on this page is taken from their contents.

Is AUR20218 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether AUR20218 sits on your own scope today, or what else on that scope has moved without anyone noticing. Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.

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What AUR20218 is made of

training.gov.au lists 22 units for AUR20218: 6 core and 16 elective. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. How many of the electives are required is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Core units 6 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
AURAEA002Follow environmental and sustainability best practice in an automotive workplacecurrent
AURASA002Follow safe working practices in an automotive workplacenot current
AURETR012Test and repair basic electrical circuitsnot current
AURETU003Service air conditioning and HVAC systemsnot current
AURETU004Diagnose and repair air conditioning and HVAC systemsnot current
AURTTA018Carry out diagnostic proceduresnot current

Elective units 16 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
AURACA001Respond to customer needs and enquiries in an automotive workplacenot current
AURAFA001Use numbers in an automotive workplacecurrent
AURAFA002Read and respond to automotive workplace informationcurrent
AURAFA003Communicate effectively in an automotive workplacenot current
AURETR006Solder electrical wiring and circuitscurrent
AURETR011Install basic ancillary electrical systems and componentscurrent
AURETU001Install air conditioning systemscurrent
AURETU002Recover vehicle refrigerantsnot current
AURETU005Retrofit and modify air conditioning and HVAC systemsnot current
AURETU007Overhaul air conditioning and HVAC system compressorscurrent
AURTTA004Carry out servicing operationsnot current
AURTTA009Carry out mechanical pre-repair operationscurrent
AURTTC003Diagnose and repair cooling systemsnot current
AURTTE004Inspect and service enginesnot current
AURTTK002Use and maintain tools and equipment in an automotive workplacenot current
AURVTA001Prepare vehicles for customer usecurrent

Core and elective are the register's own flags on the unit grid of the release read here. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 14 October 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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