How visible are auto detailing and repair businesses to AI? We measured 444 of them.
Part of the AI Visibility Index, an unfiltered audit of 1,354 US local service businesses across 50 metros. This page is the auto detailing and repair cut: the real median, the checks this trade fails most, and how it ranks against every other trade we measured.
01Where auto detailing and repair stands
Auto Detailing And Repair ranks 8th of 15 trades measured, 1 points above the all-trade median of 72. Each group below is scored as points earned against points available across the 444 businesses in this trade.
The pattern holds here as it does across every trade in the study: an AI engine can nearly always reach these sites. What it cannot do is describe them precisely, because the machine-readable facts and the answer-shaped content it needs are missing.
02What auto detailing and repair businesses fail most
Share of the 444 audited auto detailing and repair businesses that outright failed each check. Ten worst shown.
The most common single failure in this trade is FAQPage schema, missing on 91.7% of auto detailing and repair sites audited. It is worth knowing that this is a fixable, mechanical problem rather than a content one: it is a block of markup stating who the business is and what it answers, not a rewrite.
03Every trade, ranked
Median and mean score per trade, for the 15 trades with a large enough sample. Auto Detailing And Repair is highlighted.
| Trade | Audited | Median | Mean |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roofing | 54 | 80 | 74.3 |
| Garage And Doors | 32 | 79 | 75.3 |
| Painting | 27 | 75 | 73.6 |
| Remodeling | 56 | 75 | 70.3 |
| Windows And Fencing | 42 | 74 | 70.0 |
| Hvac | 61 | 74 | 72.8 |
| Flooring | 33 | 74 | 71.5 |
| Auto Detailing And Repair | 444 | 73 | 67.5 |
| Locksmith | 27 | 72 | 70.3 |
| Plumbing | 49 | 72 | 66.3 |
| Pools And Spas | 110 | 70 | 66.0 |
| Electrical | 44 | 70 | 68.0 |
| Landscaping | 48 | 70 | 66.5 |
| Pet Services | 95 | 69 | 66.2 |
| Contractor And Handyman | 137 | 68 | 62.7 |
The spread between trades is much smaller than the spread inside any one of them. Who built the website matters more than what the business does, which is why a trade average is a starting point and not a verdict on any one site.
04Method, in short
Businesses were drawn at random from Overture Maps open place data across 50 US metros, one per registrable domain, with a fixed seed and no score filter. Every business drawn was audited and counted. 444 auto detailing and repair businesses responded and were scored against the same 23 checks we run for clients. Full method, limitations and the null results we could not explain away are on the main Index page, and every figure is published as JSON under CC BY 4.0.
05Other trades
Where does your auto detailing and repair site sit?
Run the same 23 checks on your own site. No email, no call, no card: the score and every failing check appear on the page.
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