Reputation

Your rating went up 0.2 this month. It is still hiding a service problem.

AutoScope scores every review, groups the complaints into named themes with an owner, drafts the replies that are still outstanding, and puts your reputation next to the four stores competing for the same shopper.

+0.2
Rating trend, 30 days
Improving
31
New reviews this month
Normal velocity
74%
Response rate
Below target
18h
Average response time
Target is 4h

Live figures from a dealership workspace, measured over a rolling 30 days.

One store rating. Four departments earning it.

412 reviews scored over the last twelve months. 89 of them are negative, and 71 of those 89 mention service. A single average star rating cannot tell you that. The department split can, and it is the difference between coaching the sales floor and fixing the service drive.

Sales

4.7

92% of reviews positive

Staff named by first name in 8 reviews this month. “Friendly and knowledgeable” is the phrase that keeps coming back.

Parts

4.4

84% of reviews positive

Small share of volume, but the worst response rate in the store at 41%.

Finance / F&I

4.0

71% of reviews positive

18 reviews describe pressure in the finance office. Trending up 2 against last month.

Service

3.6

54% of reviews positive

71 of the 89 negative reviews mention service. This is the number pulling the store average down.

274 / 49 / 89
Positive / neutral / negative, 12 months
21.6%
Negative share, up from 14.1% in March
46
Consecutive 5-star reviews needed to get back to 4.5

Sentiment themes

“Improve your reviews” is not a task. Five named themes with an owner is.

Every negative review is tagged by theme from its own text. Two themes — wait times and callback delays — account for 61 of the 89 negative reviews on their own. Fix those two and the rest of the list stops mattering as much.

01

Service wait times

Suggested owner: Service Manager · +9 vs last month · High severity

34
38% of negatives
02

Callback and status delays

Suggested owner: Service BDC Lead · +6 vs last month · High severity

27
30% of negatives
03

Finance office pressure

Suggested owner: Finance Director · +2 vs last month · Medium severity

18
20% of negatives
04

Price differs from listing

Suggested owner: Sales Manager · −1 vs last month · Medium severity

11
12% of negatives
05

Loaner and shuttle availability

Suggested owner: Service Manager · flat · Low severity

9
10% of negatives
Open the sentiment report

Eight reviews are unanswered. The oldest has been public for eleven days.

The store answers 74% of reviews at an 18-hour average. Three of the eight open items are 1–2 star service complaints carrying 4,780 profile views between them. Nobody is ignoring them on purpose — they are spread across four platforms and nobody owns the list.

The Response Center is that list, in one place, with a draft already written for each item.

Response rate by department

Sales89%
Service62%
Parts41%

Last month, 9 of 33 reviews went unanswered. Four of those nine were 1–2 star.

Speed buys rating recovery

Share of 1–3 star reviewers who revised their rating upward, grouped by how fast the store replied. Based on 214 negative reviews answered since January.

Under 4 hours47%

The target window. Roughly one in two reviewers revises upward.

4 to 12 hours31%

Still recoverable.

12 to 24 hours19%

An 18-hour average lands here.

1 to 3 days8%

The reply starts reading as damage control.

Over 3 days3%

Five of the eight open items are already past this line.

Ranked by severity, then days waiting

A 1★ damage dispute with 14 public comments outranks a 5★ thank-you, even when the thank-you is older. The queue tells you what to open first, not just what is unread.

A draft with a remedy in it

Every draft names the failure, states one concrete fix, and carries the signature level the rating deserves. No template gratitude on a two-star service complaint.

An SLA per severity tier

Four hours on 1–2★ and pricing disputes. Twelve hours when a competitor is named. Forty-eight on a 4★ with a stated gap. The report shows current against target, tier by tier.

Work the live response queue

Rating is not the number that decides it. Volume, freshness and replies are.

Fourth of five on review count, last on response rate. The store 9.2 miles away holds 4.6 stars on 1,148 reviews, answers 96% of them inside five hours, and collects 74 a month against your 31. That gap is why it gets named in AI answers about the area and you do not.

StoreRatingReviewsVelocityThreat
Nearest rival — 9.2 mi4.61,14874 / moHigh
Store at 16.4 mi4.590658 / moMedium
Store at 17.1 mi4.438822 / moLow
Your store4.341231 / mo
Store at 14.8 mi4.251729 / moMedium

Local Nissan set, pulled from public Google, DealerRater and Cars.com profiles. Your row is highlighted.

Where the negatives land

The same complaint costs more on some platforms than others. Google carries 58% of your volume and feeds Google AI Overview, so service-wait sentiment there moves reputation and AI visibility at the same time.

  • Google24% negative

    58 of 241 reviews. Carries 58% of your volume and feeds Google AI Overview.

  • Yelp20% negative

    8 of 40. Low volume, high visibility.

  • DealerRater19% negative

    14 of 74, mostly service callback complaints.

  • Cars.com16% negative

    9 of 57, pricing and addendum complaints.

What the report hands back

Not a score. A short list of moves, each with an owner and a date, ordered by what actually shifts the number this quarter.

  • Clear the response backlog, oldest and lowest-rated first.
  • Set a 24-hour SLA on every new review, 4 hours on 1–2 star.
  • Ask for the review at service pickup, not only at sales delivery.
  • Recognise the staff named in 8 positive reviews this month.
  • Publish certified-pre-owned detail so CPO reviews start naming it.

Findings route into the tools your team already works in, alongside CRMs such as DriveCentric, so the reply and the follow-up land where the staff already are.

See the competitor comparison

Look at a real reputation report.

Open the live workspace — reviews, sentiment themes, the unanswered queue and the competitive set, exactly as a general manager sees them on a Monday.