Schepel Buick GMC
Customers rate Schepel Buick GMC in the top 5% of Buick GMC dealers nationally.
Its customer rating is top 25% and its comment activity is top 25% among franchise dealers in the country; it is above average on responsiveness and top 25% on frustration, where a higher tier means fewer frustrated customers. Customers most often praise communication and honesty. Parts department is what most often causes frustration.
Assessment covers 2026 year to date. The dealership has 3,000+ Google reviews on record.
What customers think of Schepel Buick GMC
The four measurements that make up the customer health score, each placed against every franchise dealer in the country.
Customer Rating
Top 25%Volume-weighted rating is in the top quarter of all franchise dealers.
Measures: volume-weighted rating
Comment Activity
Top 25%More customers write about this store each month than at three quarters of franchise dealers.
Measures: reviews written per month
Responsiveness
Above averageReplies to most reviews, more than the average franchise dealer.
Measures: share of reviews answered
Frustration
Top 25%Fewer frustrated customers than three quarters of franchise dealers. Lower is better.
Measures: share of reviews describing a bad experience. Lower is better; Top 25% means fewer frustrated customers than three quarters of dealers.
What customers talk about
Every review is classified into 25 topics with positive or negative sentiment. These are the topics where Schepel Buick GMC's customers are unusually positive, and the ones most likely to turn a review negative, each placed against other dealers on the same topic.
What is often praised
Where this store's customers are more positive than most dealers' on the same topic
- CommunicationNearly always positive↑ more than at most dealers
- HonestyNearly always positive↑ more than at most dealers
- Maintenance and repairNearly always positive↑ more than at most dealers
What sometimes causes frustration
Where this store's customers are more negative than most dealers' on the same topic
- Parts departmentSometimes negative↑ more than at most dealers
- Bait and switchNegative in most mentions≈ about typical for the topic
- Loaner carsOccasionally negative≈ about typical for the topic
Sales Above average
Customers who mention the sales department are more positive than at the average franchise dealer.
Service Top 25%
Customers who mention the service department are more positive than at three quarters of franchise dealers.
Are more customers talking about Schepel Buick GMC?
Two shares of the same conversation: everything Buick GMC customers in the Chicago metro have ever said, and what they're saying now.
Gaining share: Schepel Buick GMC accounts for more of the area's Buick GMC reviews now than over its lifetime.
#1 of 28 Buick GMC dealers in the Chicago metro#4 of 67 franchise dealers within 25 miles#18 of 355 mass-market dealers in the Chicago metro
Should I buy or service at Schepel Buick GMC?
Is Schepel Buick GMC a good dealership?
Customers rate Schepel Buick GMC in Merrillville, IN in the top 5% among Buick GMC dealers: an A (90–100) customer health score on the Widewail Index. The assessment covers 2026 year to date; the dealership has 3,000+ Google reviews on record in total. Its customer rating is top 25% nationally and it ranks #1 of 28 Buick GMC dealers in the Chicago metro.
Do customers trust the sales team at Schepel Buick GMC?
Sales-department sentiment at Schepel Buick GMC is above average nationally. Customers who mention the sales department are more positive than at the average franchise dealer. Customers most often praise communication and honesty.
Is the service department at Schepel Buick GMC good?
Service-department sentiment at Schepel Buick GMC is top 25% nationally. Customers who mention the service department are more positive than at three quarters of franchise dealers. Parts department is what most often causes frustration, more than at most dealers.
What do customers complain about at Schepel Buick GMC?
What most often causes frustration at Schepel Buick GMC is parts department, followed by bait and switch, more than at most dealers. Overall, Schepel Buick GMC is top 25% nationally on frustration, where a higher tier means fewer customers describing a bad experience.
Does Schepel Buick GMC respond when something goes wrong?
Schepel Buick GMC's reply rate is above average among franchise dealers nationally. Replies to most reviews, more than the average franchise dealer.
Are more people talking about Schepel Buick GMC?
Schepel Buick GMC accounts for about 1 in 15 of all Buick GMC reviews ever written in the Chicago metro, and about 1 in 6 of those being written now. Gaining share: Schepel Buick GMC accounts for more of the area's Buick GMC reviews now than over its lifetime.
How does Schepel Buick GMC compare to other Buick GMC dealers in Chicago?
Schepel Buick GMC ranks #1 of 28 Buick GMC dealers in the Chicago metro and #4 of 67 franchise dealers within 25 miles on the Widewail Index customer health score.
How is this assessment made?
The customer health score combines four measurements from public Google reviews, 2026 year to date: customer rating, comment activity, responsiveness, and frustration, each ranked against every franchise dealer in the United States. Topics are classified from review text; for each topic, the share of mentions that are positive or negative is compared with dealers of similar size. The Index refreshes monthly and no dealership can pay to change its score.
For Schepel Buick GMC
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This page is what a shopper sees when they search for a Buick GMC dealer in Chicago, and it's built entirely from what Schepel Buick GMC's customers have already said. Widewail will prepare a free Reputation Scorecard for Schepel Buick GMC: the exact numbers behind every tier on this page, benchmarked against 18,000+ dealerships, with a 20-minute analyst walkthrough for your GM and department heads.
What's in Schepel Buick GMC's scorecard
The same report Widewail delivers to dealer groups every quarter, built for this store from the Widewail Index.
- Public grade on this page A
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- All 25 topics, positive and negative, vs. benchmark 25 × 4 values
- Rank among peer dealerships on every measure 5 rankings
Analyst walkthrough. How the score is calculated, how topic analysis works, and where Schepel Buick GMC is losing or gaining ground against the Chicago stores on this page.
What would more customer feedback do?
Comment activity is one of the four inputs, and the one a management team controls fastest. Enter monthly transactions to see how many reviews Widewail would generate for Schepel Buick GMC.
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at Widewail's 14% customer-to-review conversion
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Where that volume sits among Buick GMC dealers
Schepel Buick GMC's comment activity todayTop 25%
Volume is one of four inputs to the score. The full projection shows the effect on all four, on metro rank, and on share of voice.
Enter either number to see the estimate.
How Widewail moves each measure on this page
Moves: Comment Activity
Signal
Review generation, private surveys and video testimonials, sent to every customer after a sale or service visit, so the customers who already chose Schepel Buick GMC are the ones shoppers hear from.
18%of review requests converted at Cavender Auto Family; one store grew review volume 820% in 90 days.
Moves: Responsiveness
Response
Specialist-written replies to every review and social comment, delivered within 24 hours from one feed, including the negative ones shoppers read first.
5,622custom responses written in one year across seven Sloane Automotive locations.
Moves: Rating and Frustration
Customer Clarity
A monthly diagnosis of what's working, what's slipping, and who delivered it: staff performance by name, peer benchmarking from the Widewail Index, and ranked recommendations your managers can act on.
25 topicsclassified on every review, with the frustration drivers behind this page's tiers named and prioritized.
How this assessment is made
The Widewail Index reads public Google reviews for 18,000+ franchise dealerships in the United States and refreshes monthly. Figures on this page cover 2026 year to date. Nothing here can be purchased or edited by a dealership.
The customer health score
- Customer Rating Star rating, weighted by volume so a handful of reviews can't swing it.
- Comment Activity How many customers are writing about the store each month.
- Responsiveness The share of reviews that receive an owner reply.
- Frustration The share of reviews that describe a bad experience. Lower is better, so Top 25% means fewer frustrated customers than three quarters of dealers.
Each input is ranked against every franchise dealer in the Index, combined into a 0–100 score, and shown here as a letter with its 10-point range: A 90–100, B 80–89, C 70–79, D 60–69, F below 60. The exact score is in the dealership's private scorecard.
What customers talk about
Every review is classified into 25 topics (staff, communication, wait times, pricing, honesty, and so on) with positive or negative sentiment. For each topic, we take the reviews that mention it and measure what share are positive and what share are negative, then compare that with dealers of similar size. A topic is listed only when the difference is meaningful, and the size of the difference is shown in three steps, never as a number. Figures cover 2026 year to date.
How to read the labels
- Top 25% top quarter of franchise dealers nationally
- Above average better than the national average, outside the top quarter
- Below average below the national average
- Bottom 25% bottom quarter nationally
What this page doesn't show
- The exact score and its movement month to month
- Review counts, percentages, or topic values
- All 25 topics, and named staff
- Competitors' scores side by side
