Auto Repair & Dealership Service Trust Survey
Measures how customers experience estimate transparency, timeliness, and work quality at your service department or repair shop, and how those add up to trust. An AI follow-up digs into the specific moment — often around cost or communication — where trust was won or lost.
Sample questions
A preview of what’s in the template. Every question is editable before you launch.
What type of visit was this?
- Routine maintenance (oil change, tires, inspection)
- Scheduled repair (known issue)
- Unscheduled/drop-in repair
- Warranty or recall work
- Other
Before any work began, did the shop give you a written estimate and explain what it covered?
- Yes, clearly explained
- Yes, but not explained well
- I got a verbal estimate only
- No estimate was given
How closely did the final bill match the estimate you were given?
Did you experience any charges you weren't told about in advance?
- No, everything was disclosed upfront
- Yes, minor unexpected charges
- Yes, significant unexpected charges
Was your vehicle ready at the time you were originally promised?
How would you rate the quality of the work — was the issue fixed correctly on this visit?
How much do you agree with the following about your visit?
- Staff communicated clearly in language I understood
- I felt pressured to approve extra work
- The waiting area and facility were clean and comfortable
- Pricing felt fair for the work performed
How likely are you to recommend this shop/dealership service department to a friend or family member?
Reconstruct the specific moment in this visit that most shaped the respondent's trust in the shop — anchor on whether it involved the estimate, an unexpected charge, communication, or the quality of the repair itself. If they reported an estimate mismatch or unexpected charges, probe exactly what was added, whether it was explained before or after the fact, and how the shop handled their reaction. If everything went smoothly, ask what specifically made them feel confident rather than just satisfied.
How often do you have this vehicle serviced at this location?
- This was my first visit
- Every 1-2 visits go here
- Most or all of my visits go here
- This was a one-time emergency stop
How old is the vehicle you had serviced?
- Less than 1 year
- 1-3 years
- 4-7 years
- 8-12 years
- Over 12 years
- Prefer not to say
Which age range do you fall into?
- 18-24
- 25-34
- 35-44
- 45-54
- 55-64
- 65+
- Prefer not to say
That's everything — thank you for the honest feedback! Your responses go directly to our service management team to improve estimate transparency, turnaround time, and repair quality.
What’s included
AI follow-ups
Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.
Attention checks
Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.
AI-drafted copy
Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.
Auto report
Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.
How it compares
We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.
Why this template
- Includes explicit estimate-transparency questions (written estimate given, final bill match, surprise charges) rather than a single generic satisfaction item
- Pairs quantitative timeliness and quality-of-repair ratings with a matrix agreement block, then an AI follow-up that reconstructs the specific moment where trust was won or lost
- Segments responses by visit type, service frequency, and vehicle age so a shop can see which customer segments are most at risk
- Ends in an auto-generated report, unlike static question banks that require manual analysis
QuestionPro
Automobile Service Evaluation Survey Questions + Sample Questionnaire TemplateThis page reads as a sample questionnaire and question-bank guide for automobile service evaluation, with an associated template usable inside QuestionPro's builder. It covers general service satisfaction themes but the public page itself is closer to a curated question list than a polished, ready-to-field customer trust survey. Useful as a question-idea reference rather than a deep diagnostic instrument.
What it does well
- Backed by an established survey platform with logic, distribution, and reporting tools
- Covers broad automobile service satisfaction themes that can be customized
- Question bank format makes it easy to cherry-pick items for a quick internal survey
Where it falls short
- Static multiple-choice/rating questions only — no adaptive AI follow-up that probes the specific moment behind a low or high score
- No voice AI interview option for capturing verbal detail on cost or communication issues
- No visible automated per-response quality scoring or transparent prompt methodology
Ready to launch?
Open this template in the editor. Every part is yours to change before the first respondent sees it.