Affordable Car Centre

Name: Affordable Car Centre
Rating: 4

New Rd, Great Barford, Bedford MK44 3LH, United Kingdom · United Kingdom

★ 4.0 on Google · 1,009 reviews · View on Google Maps

67 / 100

Manipulation score

Suspicious

Completed Jul 25, 2026 · 489 reviews flagged

How this score works

The score estimates how strongly this place's review record matches known manipulation patterns, from 0 (no signs) to 100. Verdicts: Clean below 40, Suspicious from 40, Likely Manipulated from 70. It rises with the share of reviews flagged and how suspicious each one is.

Burst: — an abnormal spike of five-star reviews in a single day compared to the place's usual pace.
Low activity account: — the reviewer has almost no other reviews, photos, or Local Guide history; throwaway accounts look like this.
Duplicate text: — the wording is nearly identical to another review of the same place.

Verdicts are statistical estimates based on public review patterns, not accusations.

Review anatomy

Reviews examined

1,000

Flagged

489

49% of examined

Flagged avg rating

4.7★

place average 4.0★

Reviews per quarter

Q4 ’19

Q1 ’21

Q2 ’22

Q3 ’23

Q4 ’24

Q1 ’26

Reviews per quarter, total and flagged
Quarter	Reviews	Flagged
Q4 ’19	11	7
Q1 ’20	17	4
Q2 ’20	9	2
Q3 ’20	38	16
Q4 ’20	26	9
Q1 ’21	20	9
Q2 ’21	38	13
Q3 ’21	29	10
Q4 ’21	43	25
Q1 ’22	93	48
Q2 ’22	69	36
Q3 ’22	73	42
Q4 ’22	44	24
Q1 ’23	70	42
Q2 ’23	38	15
Q3 ’23	39	17
Q4 ’23	16	7
Q1 ’24	24	9
Q2 ’24	42	21
Q3 ’24	51	30
Q4 ’24	23	10
Q1 ’25	36	18
Q2 ’25	18	7
Q3 ’25	28	13
Q4 ’25	37	22
Q1 ’26	28	14
Q2 ’26	27	12
Q3 ’26	13	7

Rating distribution

5★

4★

3★

2★

1★

Evidence

burst
19 occurrences — worst: 7 five-star reviews on 2023-02-18 vs avg 1.2/day
Show all 19
- 3 five-star reviews on 2020-08-30 vs avg 0.2/day
- 4 five-star reviews on 2020-09-06 vs avg 0.5/day
- 3 five-star reviews on 2021-04-25 vs avg 0.4/day
- 3 five-star reviews on 2021-05-08 vs avg 0.5/day
- 3 five-star reviews on 2021-11-21 vs avg 0.4/day
- 3 five-star reviews on 2021-12-29 vs avg 0.4/day
- 5 five-star reviews on 2022-02-27 vs avg 0.8/day
- 4 five-star reviews on 2022-08-17 vs avg 0.7/day
- 3 five-star reviews on 2022-11-19 vs avg 0.2/day
- 3 five-star reviews on 2023-01-30 vs avg 0.4/day
- 4 five-star reviews on 2023-02-02 vs avg 0.6/day
- 5 five-star reviews on 2023-02-13 vs avg 1.0/day
- 7 five-star reviews on 2023-02-18 vs avg 1.2/day
- 4 five-star reviews on 2024-07-13 vs avg 0.7/day
- 3 five-star reviews on 2025-02-04 vs avg 0.4/day
- 3 five-star reviews on 2025-09-12 vs avg 0.3/day
- 3 five-star reviews on 2025-11-01 vs avg 0.5/day
- 3 five-star reviews on 2026-01-13 vs avg 0.3/day
- 4 five-star reviews on 2026-06-12 vs avg 0.3/day
weight 1
low activity account 449 reviews flagged weight 0.8
duplicate text 27 reviews flagged weight 0.9

Flagged reviews

Exhibit — 4 reviews, near-identical wording

Peugeot 108 1.0 just purchased today

Georgina Curson ★★★★★ 2023-08-02 suspicion 82
Amrit Bagrah ★★★★★ 2024-03-29 suspicion 91
Mark Kelly ★★★★ 2024-07-13 suspicion 76
Balraj Singh ★★★★★ 2024-11-27 suspicion 68

Exhibit — 3 reviews, near-identical wording

ford fiesta automatic purchased today

courts ★★★★★ 2023-08-11 suspicion 86
Karen Love ★★★★★ 2024-11-22 suspicion 81
Amrullah Mohammadi ★★★★★ 2026-07-19 suspicion 86

Exhibit — 3 reviews, near-identical wording

Da14ozr Range rover purchased today

Marian David ★★★★★ 2022-09-24 suspicion 59
Balbir Kaur ★★★★★ 2022-10-15 suspicion 79
Shubham Saini ★★★★★ 2025-02-04 suspicion 95

Exhibit — 3 reviews, near-identical wording

Great selection of cars in stock

Ioan Sin Dumitru ★★★★★ 2021-02-23 suspicion 79
kuiruta locko ★★★★★ 2022-04-08 suspicion 79
Danny Ncube ★★★★★ 2024-07-10 suspicion 79