Auto Electrician Near MeHow we rank auto electricians
One formula orders every list on this site, and it is printed below with the numbers it is using today. Paying for a Featured slot puts a labelled card above the list. It never changes the order of the list itself.
Where the listings come from
All 1 822 businesses here run a public Google Business Profile as an auto electrician, or as a workshop that lists auto electrical work, somewhere in South Africa. None of them asked to be included and none of them paid to be.
Found in Google’s business data
We search Google Maps business data (through DataForSEO) across the whole country, by category and by name, then drop parts shops, battery retailers and dealers that do not do the work themselves.
Checked live against Google
Stored business data goes stale, so every listing is re-checked against its live Google profile (through Outscraper) before the site is updated. Businesses Google marks as permanently closed, or no longer has, are removed. Each card shows the date of its last check.
Own websites read
We read each listed website to see what the business tells its own customers, which is where the badges come from. 1 125 list no website at all and 191 have one that would not load when we tried.
The formula
Sorting by star rating alone rewards the newest business with two reviews from friends. The score below lets a rating count for more as the number of reviews behind it grows.
score = ( R / (R + 12) ) × rating + ( 12 / (R + 12) ) × 4.329R is the business’s number of Google reviews. 4.329 is the average rating of every listed auto electrician with at least one review. 12 is the point at which a business’s own reviews start to count for more than that national average.
Put simply, each business begins at the national average and its own reviews move it up or down. With a handful of reviews it moves a little. With a few hundred it moves almost all the way to its own rating. A workshop at 4.7 stars from 250 customers therefore sits above a new one at 5.0 from two.
Each row is computed with the same function the database runs. Above the 4.329 average, more reviews at the same rating always score higher. Below it the effect reverses: a low rating backed by many reviews is stronger evidence than a low rating backed by a few.
What the badges mean
A badge reports what a business says about itself, and where it says it. We do not phone anyone, and we do not upgrade a claim into a fact.
Mobile: do they come to the car?
The trading name says so
“Mobile” is part of the business name. A reasonable signal, though a name is chosen once and the way a business works can change after that.
Their own website offers it
The website mentions mobile work, call-outs or roadside help. We report the wording. We have not tested how far they will travel, or how quickly.
Round-the-clock hours
Google and their site agree
Google shows round-the-clock hours and the business’s own website offers after-hours work. Two sources agreeing is still not the same as somebody picking up at midnight.
Only the Google hours say so
Hours on Google read “open 24 hours”, but their website says nothing about after-hours work. Owners sometimes pick that setting by mistake, so this badge is a flag to phone and ask.
Only their website says so
The website advertises after-hours help while the Google hours show normal trading. Usually an old profile rather than a false claim.
Other things we mark
Where a listing appears
A business appears on a town page because its Google Business Profile is in that town. A suburb’s businesses also count towards the town it belongs to.
Plenty of auto electricians, mobile ones especially, name a long list of areas on their website. Where those areas are close enough to be believable, the card shows them as “also covers”. That is a note on the card and nothing more. It does not put a business on another town’s page, because if it could, every business would claim every suburb.
What we do not do
We do not vet anyone
We have not inspected any workshop, its diagnostic equipment, its insurance or its staff’s training. A high place on a list means a strong public review record and nothing else. Ask for a written quote and the warranty terms before work starts.
We compare claims, we do not confirm them
“Confirmed” on this site means two sources say the same thing. It does not mean we tested it. Read every badge as a report of what the business publishes.
Money does not change the order
Featured placement is sold, sits above the ordered list, and is labelled Featured every time. The scores below it do not change. Links to business websites carry nofollow, and paid ones also carry sponsored.
Badges cannot be bought off
A business cannot pay to lose a “Google only” badge, hide its service-area count or have a low rating removed. The only way to change them is to change what it publishes on Google or on its own website.
We will sometimes be out of date
Between checks, numbers and hours change. If a listing is wrong, tell us through the claim page. Corrections are free and never depend on buying anything.