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Motor Finance

Car finance and loan company · Ellerslie, Central Auckland

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 106 Central Auckland finance businesses.

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Checked12 October 2026
Your marketCentral Auckland personal & business finance · 106 businesses
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Motor Finance

Car finance and loan company · Ellerslie, Central Auckland

Where you stand#71of 106 finance businesses
Overall health3.3/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Motor Finance in Ellerslie, Auckland provides vehicle loans, personal loans and debt consolidation lending. They state competitive rates, flexible terms, 100% no-deposit finance and a simple online application with quick turnaround. Customers, however, tend to report dissatisfaction in recent reviews. The firm focuses on car finance and household debt consolidation for local clients.

Motor Finance is a finance provider based in Ellerslie, Auckland offering vehicle loans, personal loans and debt consolidation products. The description on their site positions them as a local lender for customers seeking car finance or help reducing multiple monthly payments.

Their advertised services include vehicle loans with online applications, personal loans and debt consolidation loans. The website states competitive rates, flexible and affordable terms, 100% no-deposit finance and a quick turnaround for applications. The emphasis is on an accessible online application process for customers who have found a car to buy or who want pre-approval.

Customer feedback in the available review snapshot indicates clear dissatisfaction: recent reviews give very low ratings and brief negative comments. This suggests customers, based on the reviews provided, tend to report poor experiences rather than positive interactions. No detailed reasons are supplied in the snapshot, only a very low average rating and short critical remarks.

Locally, Motor Finance is presented as a straightforward choice for vehicle financing and consolidated loans in Ellerslie, with online processes and no-deposit options highlighted. The combination of advertised quick turnarounds and digital application paths is positioned as the business's practical focus for clients in Auckland, while the review snapshot indicates notable customer discontent that prospective clients may consider.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Motor Finance's Google Business Listing shows a low overall health score, indicating limited completeness and optimization. The listing is claimed, with a proper business name, website link, phone number, and Open-for-Business status, but key gaps remain. Notable strengths include a claimed listing and active contact details, while opportunities lie in description, photos, and category fit to improve presence and clarity for customers.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Description lengthThere is no real description on your listing, so when someone finds you on Google there is nothing in your own words telling them what you do.
  • 2
    Photos on the listingYou have fewer photos than nearly every business here, so a customer comparing you against them builds a picture of their work and guesses at yours.
  • 3
    Category fitYour categories cover less of this market than nearly every competitor, so someone searching for a job you actually do is shown a list your listing was never entered into.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
2.8Room to grow
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1.0 ★★★★★ (1)
Car finance and loan company · Ellerslie3
Open 7 days ✓
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From the business
No description yet1
Google listingCentral Auckland personal & business finance · 106 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Motor Finance in Ellerslie shows a very low Google Health score, with limited reviews, indicating weak trust signals. The top findings point to a low rating and low review count, plus no responses to any reviews, which diminishes credibility. Improving both review volume and engagement is essential to shift perception among local customers.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together put you at the bottom of this market - either the rating is low, or there are too few reviews behind it for anyone to trust it.
  • 2
    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
  • 3
    Star ratingYour rating sits well below what customers here are used to seeing, and it is the first number they compare when two businesses look otherwise equal.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
1.4Room to grow
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1How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsCentral Auckland personal & business finance · 106 businesses
You are #91 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Motor Finance in Ellerslie shows very high health in Google Maps search, with a 9.5/10 score. The business already achieves broad reach across surrounding suburbs, and top themes include car finance in Ellerslie and nearby areas. The strongest opportunity is improving suburb-specific visibility, as local searches from the borough occur less often than half of expectations, where reviews and photos can help raise rankings.

Strengths

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    Maps visibility across the city groupThere is no wider Maps reach available to a business at your address - you appear across more of the surrounding suburbs than anyone in this market.

Top opportunity

  • 1
    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches less often than half your suburb, so on a search from nearby you sit below businesses a customer would otherwise treat as equal.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
9.5Strong
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✓Top three for "car finance & loan company" in 9 suburbs, seen in 49
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Motor Finance11.0 ★ (1) · Car finance and loan company
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Kiwi Car Loans4.9 ★ (1,570) · Car finance and loan company
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Credit One New Zealand5.0 ★ (225) · Car finance and loan company
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All Loans4.2 ★ (5) · Car finance and loan company
Map positionsCentral Auckland personal & business finance · 106 businesses
You are #6 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Motor Finance shows below average presence across social platforms and directories, with a health score of 3.2 out of 10. The strongest signal is from Facebook where a page exists but is not aligned with the business, and there is no active Instagram, LinkedIn, or Yellow Pages listings. Prioritising a basic, claimable presence on core profiles is recommended.

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    Having a Facebook page at allyour Facebook Profile page surfaces strongly in search, which is how we found it - but nothing you control points at it.
  • 3
    Yellow ProfileWe could not find an active Yellow Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
5 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 3 of them.
3.4Room to grow
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Infobelmotor_financeMotor Finance | Infobel
FacebookTrustMotorsNZMotor Finance | Facebook2
InstagramNo account found1
YellowNo listing found3
LinkedInNo listing found
Listings and socialCentral Auckland personal & business finance · 106 businesses
You are #70 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

The Facebook page health is very high (8.6/10). The page holds one of the largest local followings (27,390) and a deep set of recommendations (51 written), plus a claimed username, phone and email visible to customers. The most important issues are the page link leading to a YouTube feed rather than the business's own site, and keeping the existing intro accurate rather than expanding it.

Strengths

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    People following your pageYours is one of the largest local followings in this market.
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    Recommendations on your pageYour recommendation count is one of the deeper collections in this market, and enough of it is written by other people that the page does some of the arguing for you.
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    A page address you choseThe address on your page carries your business name, so a customer told about you at a barbecue can find the page by typing what they heard.

Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Where your page link pointsThe link on your page sends people to another feed or a links page rather than to a site of your own, so someone chasing a price ends up one more tap from the answer and scrolls until the errand is forgotten.
  • 2
    What your page says about youThere is more in your intro than in half the pages here, so a visitor has a real sense of the business before they reach the photos.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 5 of them.
8.9Strong
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Facebook pageCentral Auckland personal & business finance · 106 businesses
You are #13 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Strengths

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    Domain HealthYour site answers cleanly over a secure connection, so a customer clicking through from Google lands where they expect with nothing in the way.
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    Domain UniquenessYour web address is yours alone, so everything your site earns - links, mentions, search standing - accumulates under your name and stays with the business.
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    FaviconThe tab your site opens in carries your own icon, so a customer with a dozen tabs going can find their way back to you by sight.

Top three opportunities

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    On-page scoreSeveral checks on your home page fail at once, and a visitor meets all of them in the first few seconds: a slow open, no clear heading, nothing under your name in search that says what you do.
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    Separate sites linking to youOnly a handful of separate websites link to yours, well behind most of this market.
  • 3
    The shape of your link profileYour links are piled onto a small number of sites for a profile this size, so they are doing less for you than the count suggests.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
-Room to grow
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Your websiteCentral Auckland personal & business finance · 106 businesses
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07Google search and trafficMarketbase business report

How people find you on Google

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth less than most businesses here, which means the work coming in arrives through word of mouth and repeat customers rather than through people searching for what you do.
  • 2
    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
  • 3
    Monthly search visitsYour site draws fewer visitors from search than most businesses here, so most people looking for what you do are landing somewhere else.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
4.0Room to grow
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Motor FinanceNot in these results
31About 6 visits a month from search, across 3 searches
Google search and trafficCentral Auckland personal & business finance · 106 businesses
You are #64 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Hours are already well aimed; open hours cover 80% of the week's customer traffic, so only one clear gap remains. Tuesday 8am to 9am is closed, where customers meet a closed door. Open Tuesday 8am to 9am to let customers arrive and get in before the main 9am trade.

Strengths

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    Hours aligned with demandNo business here matches the demand around it more closely than you do - you are open when people are looking and shut when they are not.

Where we can help

Nothing to sort here. You are first of 106 Central Auckland finance businesses for hours that match demand.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
10.0Strong
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OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
Hours ✓
Monday8:30am-5pm
Tuesday8:30am-5pm
Wednesday8:30am-5pm
Thursday8:30am-5pm
Friday8:30am-5pm
Saturday10am-4pm
Sunday10am-4pm
Popular times Saturday · Ellerslie
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Opening hoursCentral Auckland personal & business finance · 106 businesses
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The next step

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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions1 opportunity

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page2 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

Where you'd stand#71of 106 Central Auckland finance businesses
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Central Auckland personal & business financeOverall · 106 businesses
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