923 AI answers about auto repair shops cited 38 review sites. Grades.com collects reviews from 16 of them. Answers from the last 90 days (Aug 1 to Oct 30, 2026).
Which review sites matter most for auto repair shops?
By AI citation share, the top review sites for auto repair shops are Yelp (53.5%), CARFAX (45.2%) and BBB (25.4%), out of 923 AI answers about auto repair shops. 16 sites are cited in at least 20 of those answers.
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Share of 923 AI answers about auto repair shops (the last 90 days) that cite each site, ranked. 12 of the 16 sites cited in 20 or more answers; the other 4 are in the table.
Which review sites does each AI assistant cite for auto repair shops?
ChatGPT cites CARFAX most (55% of its answers), Claude cites Yelp most (91% of its answers), Gemini cites CARFAX most (37% of its answers) and Perplexity cites Yelp most (88% of its answers). Each chart: the share of that assistant's answers about auto repair shops that cite the site.
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Yelp is the review site AI assistants cite most for auto repair shops: 53.5% of 923 answers, ahead of CARFAX (45.2%).
Google Business Profile is where most auto repair shops already are: 100% of the 268 we checked have a profile there, and AI cites it in 11.8% of answers.
CARFAX is cited in 45.2% of answers, yet only 4% of the auto repair shops we checked have a profile there.
Yelp is cited in 53.5% of answers, but its rules do not allow asking customers for reviews: claim the profile and reply instead.
Facebook has the biggest audience of these sites: about 3.2B monthly visits (an estimate).
Where do auto repair shops get reviews?
Of the auto repair shops we checked, 100% have a Google Business Profile, 79% have a Facebook profile and 34% have a BBB profile (n = 268 businesses).
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Share of the auto repair shops we checked with a profile on each site, 0 to 100%. n = businesses checked.
The full ranking
See all 16 sites cited in 20 or more answers, in a table
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AI citation share: the share of the 923 AI answers about auto repair shops that cite the site. Sites cited in fewer than 20 of these answers are left out.Has a profile: auto repair shops we checked with a profile on the site. Collected = Grades.com pulls reviews from this site. Site reach: estimated monthly organic search visits to the site's domain (DataForSEO Labs, Ahrefs Domain Rating, October 2026).
Frequently asked questions
Which review site do AI assistants cite most for auto repair shops?
Yelp is cited in 53.5% of 923 AI answers about auto repair shops, ahead of CARFAX (45.2%) and BBB (25.4%).
Do auto repair shops need Yelp?
Yelp ranks #1 of 16 for auto repair shops: AI assistants cite it in 53.5% of 923 answers about auto repair shops, against 43.4% of all answers. 16% of the auto repair shops we checked have a profile there (n = 268). Grades.com collects Yelp reviews.
Which review sites does Grades.com collect for auto repair shops?
Of the 38 review sites cited in AI answers about auto repair shops, Grades.com collects reviews from 16, among them Yelp, CARFAX, BBB, DealerRater, Google Business Profile and Yellow Pages.
Which review site is easiest for auto repair shops to get reviews on?
Of the review sites cited for auto repair shops, Google Business Profile is the one cited most (11.8% of AI answers) whose own rules let anyone leave a review, let the business send a direct review link, and allow asking customers for reviews. Yelp does not allow asking.
What is AI citation share?
The share of AI answers that cite a review site. Here it is counted over 923 answers about auto repair shops from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity in the last 90 days: Yelp is cited in 494 of them, a 53.5% share.
The three words this page uses: collected = Grades.com pulls reviews from the site (54 review sites in all); measured = every review site the AI answers cited, across all industries (109 sites); cited for auto repair shops = the measured sites that appeared in at least one of the 923 answers about auto repair shops (38 sites).
Data window: Aug 1 to Oct 30, 2026 (90 days), October 2026 edition, data as of October 30, 2026.
AI citation share: answers citing the site divided by the 923 AI answers about auto repair shops (businesses in the "Auto Repair & Parts" category of the Grades.com directory), from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. The chart and the table rank the sites cited in 20 or more of these answers. Search-result and help pages on a review site are not counted.
Has a profile: the share of the auto repair shops we checked with a profile on the site (n = businesses checked).
Picks: most cited by AI = highest citation share; easiest to get reviews = the site cited most whose own rules let anyone review, let the business send a direct review link and allow asking (from its guide; never Yelp, which does not allow asking); most replies from businesses = highest share of reviews with a business reply, among auto repair shops, shown with at least 100 reviews checked. A pick the data cannot support is left out.
Start with these three: the sites cited most for auto repair shops that Grades.com collects, one per site Grades.com connects. A site that shows another site's reviews is covered by connecting that site.
Site reach: estimated monthly organic search visits to the site's domain (DataForSEO Labs, Ahrefs Domain Rating, October 2026); an estimate for the whole domain, not a figure published by the site, and the same in every industry.
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