For Car Dealerships and Dealer Groups
Remove DealerRater Reviews
Pay Only After Removal
A fake or rule-breaking review on DealerRater can steer shoppers to another store before they ever visit yours. DealerRater's community guidelines say what a review may not be, and that it can remove reviews that break them. We find the guideline a review breaks, build the proof, and report it. You pay only after a review is confirmed removed.
Pay Only After Removal
Strategy by Anthony Will, Founder & CEO · 13+ years in ORM · 5,000+ clients- DealerRater is not a dealer advocate. DealerRater says it is not a dealer advocate and does not mediate between dealerships and review authors. A removal case has to rest on a specific community guideline. How DealerRater works →
- The guidelines list what can be removed. Employees, immediate family, conflicts of interest, reviews on someone else's behalf, reviews under 15 words, experiences over 12 months old, and prohibited content are all listed. What qualifies →
- You pay only on results. No retainer and no upfront fee. Our fee is collected only after the review is confirmed removed. Our process →
What is DealerRater review removal?
The short answer
DealerRater review removal is the process of getting a review taken off your dealership's DealerRater profile because it breaks DealerRater's community guidelines. The guidelines say reviews must be written from the reviewer's own personal device, may not be submitted by dealership employees, their immediate family members, or anyone with a conflict of interest, and may not be written on someone else's behalf except for caretakers or immediate family posting for a user who cannot. They require at least 15 words, a description of an experience from the past 12 months, and only one review per dealership experience. They prohibit obscenities, defamatory or inappropriate comments, harassment and threats, content that encourages illegal activity, advertisements and spam, and contact information such as emails, URLs, phone numbers, and addresses. DealerRater says it may remove a review that fails these guidelines, and that it does not mediate between dealerships and the author of a review. The case is built by showing, with evidence, which guideline a review breaks.
How Reputation Resolutions handles DealerRater reviews
Our team has handled DealerRater review removal requests for dealerships, so we know the patterns that come up in this category. DealerRater profiles sit near the top of Google for a dealership's name, and shoppers read them alongside Google and the manufacturer's own sites. A handful of one-star reviews, or a review from someone who never bought a car, can move a shopper to the next store.
DealerRater's guidelines are specific, which helps a case. We read each negative review against them and look for a violation: a reviewer who is an employee, a relative, or a competitor's contact, a review that appears to be written on someone else's behalf, a review that describes an experience older than 12 months, a review of fewer than 15 words, a review that includes contact information, or content that is defamatory or abusive. Where we find one, we build the evidence from your sales and service records and report it through DealerRater's channels, then follow up.
We are direct about the limits. DealerRater says it does not mediate between dealerships and authors, and an honest review from a real customer, however negative, stays up. Our fee is collected only after DealerRater confirms the removal, and we only take reviews that show a ground.
How DealerRater Works
What DealerRater says about its own reviews
It is not a dealer advocate
DealerRater says reviews are the individual poster's own opinions, that it does not endorse or affiliate with the dealers reviewed, and that it is not a dealer advocate and does not mediate between dealerships and review authors.
Reviews must be from real customers
The guidelines say reviews may not be submitted by dealership employees, their immediate family members, or anyone with a conflict of interest, and may not be submitted on someone else's behalf, with allowances for caretakers and immediate family of a user who cannot post.
There are format rules
The guidelines require a minimum of 15 words, an experience from the past 12 months, one review per dealership experience, and writing from the reviewer's own device rather than one owned by the dealership.
Prohibited content can be removed
DealerRater says it reserves the right to remove or modify a review containing obscenities, discriminatory language, defamatory or inappropriate comments, harassment or threats, content encouraging illegal activity, advertisements or spam, and contact information.
Certified dealers may get a response window
DealerRater says posting of a submission may be delayed subject to a Certified Dealer's right to respond to the author before it is posted. A dealer response alone does not remove the review.
What Qualifies
The review types DealerRater can remove
Employees, family, and conflicts of interest
Reviews from dealership employees, their immediate family, or anyone with a conflict of interest are not allowed. We document the connection.
Reviews on someone else's behalf
DealerRater says reviews must be written and submitted by the consumer. A review that appears to be written by someone other than the customer can be rejected.
Outside the format rules
A review under 15 words, about an experience older than 12 months, or a second review for the same experience falls outside the guidelines.
Prohibited content
Defamatory or inappropriate comments, harassment, threats, spam, and contact information such as emails, URLs, phone numbers, or addresses are all listed as removable.
Reviews tied to the wrong store or employee
A review that describes a different dealership, or that is tagged to the wrong employee, is something we can document and report.
How It Works
How we remove a DealerRater review
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Free review assessment
Know what qualifies.We read every negative review on your profile and tell you honestly which show a violation and which will stay. No cost. No commitment.
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Build the case
Not a general complaint.We match each qualifying review to the exact guideline it breaks and assemble the proof from your sales, service, and CRM records.
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Report and follow up
Direct submission.We submit the report through DealerRater's channels with the evidence attached, track the outcome, and follow up if it is declined.
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You pay only after removal
Pay after. Not before.Our fee is collected only after DealerRater confirms the review is removed. If it stays up, you owe nothing for it.
Free to find out what qualifies.
Get a free, honest assessment of what we can actually do, with no upfront cost and no obligation.
Honest Timelines
Honest timelines
DealerRater does not publish a turnaround for removal requests, so these are what the platform says plus what we can promise about our own process.
DealerRater's community guidelines state no turnaround. Anyone promising a date is guessing.
A denial is not the end. We respond with added evidence where there is a basis.
The guidelines say a review must describe an experience from the past 12 months.
A real customer's honest account stays up. A professional response is the right tool.
AI Search & LLMs
What ChatGPT & Google AI Overviews say about your dealership
More people now read an AI answer before they ever click a result. For your dealership, that answer is the new first impression. If it repeats an old complaint, a false claim, or a competitor's talking point, it shapes the decision before you even know the conversation happened.
The answer is assembled from sources. We change the sources.
ChatGPTGoogle AI Overviews
Gemini
Perplexity
ClaudeAI answers trace back to what ranks
Google says its AI Overviews are grounded in its core Search ranking, and ChatGPT and Perplexity cite what is indexed and authoritative. So what AI says about you is not random, it comes from sources you can actually influence.
We audit what AI says today
We prompt ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews the way real people ask about you, document every answer, and trace each claim back to the source feeding it.
We correct it at the source
We remove or suppress the false and damaging sources, strengthen accurate authoritative content, and reinforce your verified entity data and Knowledge Panel, so as the models re-read the web their answers move with the truth.
We are honest about the limits
No one can edit an AI model's output directly, and we will not pretend otherwise. Change comes from the sources and takes time as models refresh; we monitor each engine and re-check rather than assume one fix holds.
Monitor
We track what AI says about your dealership, monthly
A recurring prompt panel across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews logs how you are described, what gets cited, and what changed, so a bad answer is caught before it spreads.
AI reputation monitoring →Influence
We change the sources AI draws from
No one can edit an AI's answer directly. We correct, remove, or outrank the sources behind it, structure your own site so models cite it (LLM SEO), and build presence on the third-party surfaces models trust (LLM seeding).
LLM seeding & LLM SEO →Why We're Different
Doing it yourself vs. Reputation Resolutions
| Feature | Reporting It Yourself | Reputation Resolutions |
|---|---|---|
| The report | A general complaint that a review is unfair | A documented case tied to the exact guideline broken |
| Contacting the customer | Tempting, and it can make things worse | Never. Everything goes through DealerRater |
| If it is declined | Case closed | Followed up with added documentation |
| Cost | Free, but often no result | No upfront fee. You pay only after removal is confirmed |
| Honesty | No one tells you if a review is a long shot | We tell you up front which reviews qualify |
Who runs your case
Senior specialists, no junior handoffs
Reputation Resolutions is run and managed by a world-class team of online reputation management experts. Your case is handled by senior, multidisciplinary specialists: removal strategists who know each platform's rulebook, SEO and content experts who rebuild your search results, legal partners for the matters that need them, veteran PR professionals, and AI-search specialists who help you control what LLMs like ChatGPT say about you. There are no junior handoffs and no learning on your case, and every person here treats your name as if it were their own.
Get Started
Schedule a Free Consultation With Our Review Removal Specialists
A free review of your DealerRater profile: which reviews show a violation, which will stay, and what a removal would involve, with no cost unless a review comes down.
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DealerRater Review FAQs
DealerRater Review Removal, Answered Honestly.
The same straight talk we give every dealership on their free consultation.
Yes, when a review breaks DealerRater's community guidelines. The guidelines say DealerRater reserves the right to remove or modify a review that contains prohibited content, and that reviews from dealership employees, their immediate family, or people with a conflict of interest are not allowed. An honest review from a real customer is not removable.
No. A dealership cannot delete a review. DealerRater says it is not a dealer advocate and does not mediate between dealerships and review authors. You can respond to a review, and you can ask DealerRater to remove a review that breaks its guidelines.
It depends on what makes it invalid. DealerRater says reviews must describe the reviewer's own experience and be written by the consumer. A review that appears to be written by someone else, by an employee, or a relative, or that has no matching customer experience, can be reported with evidence.
The guidelines say a review must use at least 15 words, describe an experience from within the past 12 months, be one review per dealership experience, and be written from the reviewer's own device and not one owned by the business.
If the review names or tags an employee who was not involved, or the wrong store, we can document the mismatch and report it. Whether DealerRater removes it or corrects it is its decision.
Yes. DealerRater says a Certified Dealer may have a right to respond before a submission is posted. A calm, factual response helps future shoppers and works alongside a removal case.
DealerRater's guidelines say it may remove a review for any reason at its sole discretion, with no notice to the author. That works in both directions, so we build cases on specific, documentable guidelines.
DealerRater's guidelines do not state a turnaround. We give you a realistic expectation for your case and keep following up until there is a decision.
No. Contacting a reviewer to pressure them can backfire and can break the rules of the platform. We use only the proper channel with documented evidence.
The assessment is free and there is no upfront fee. Our fee is collected only after a review is confirmed removed, and if it is not removed you owe nothing for it. We give you a transparent quote on the consultation.
AI assistants and Google's AI Overviews increasingly summarize dealership review sites when shoppers ask where to buy a car. Removing a review that breaks the guidelines removes it as a source for those answers too.
Still not sure if your situation qualifies?
Get a straight answer from a senior specialist in one call: free, confidential, and you'll know exactly where you stand before you decide anything.
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