CARING FOR YOUR CAR with Car-Fé

Grace for Vets - a great day!

Rob Bonnici is the Car Guy. Rob lives, eats and breathes car cleaning products and services. Having a background in chemicals, car cleaning products and now owning a 7 day a week car cleaning and grooming centre, he is without a doubt the most passionate and the most knowledgeable car guy in New Zealand. Rob, along with his wife Siobhan, owns Car-fé facing the motorway in Barry’s Point Road, Takapuna and can be seen most days attending to the many unique car cleaning issues with his valued clients. Issues such as acid rain on windows, paintwork, odour in cars, stained seats, tired paintwork, faded trims and so on. Rob is going to provide an interesting monthly motor vehicle car care column for Channel Magazine. He is also very happy for you to contact him should you have a problem that you would like to address with your car. Email: Carfe.takapuna@xtra.co.nz or Phone 488-7000.

The team at Carfe in Takapuna got behind a fabulous initiative called “Grace for Vets Day” on Friday November 11th.
Grace For Vets is staged by car wash operators that provide a FREE CAR WASH to veterans and service personnel each year to honour their past and present service to their country. It is very big in the US and Canada. It is growing in Australia as well and this year Carfe was the only New Zealand car wash to get involved.
Grace for Vets was founded in 2004 by a single car wash operator, Mike Mountz, a Vietnam-era veteran and owner of four Car Washes in Pennsylvania. He had a desire to give something back to all veterans who had served their country.
Our aim was to wash 100 vehicles, so we were thrilled that we washed 141 cars in total, with 91 of these cars washed for free. We look forward to smashing this total next year.
We would like to thank all our workers for attending at short notice – for making it through the day – and also our regular customers for their patience on the busy day.
Firstly I would like to share the experience that our staff got out of being part of the day. It was the most humbling and rewarding day that they have worked at the wash. The military personnel were very appreciative of the fact that someone recognised the great service they provide.
The facts:
141 cars were washed on 11.11.11 at Car-Fe Takapuna.
91 Cars were washed for free.
The initiative washed a reported 131,431 on the day throughout
the World.

Carfe – 87 Barrys Point Road,
Email: Carfe.takapuna@xtra.co.nz
or Phone 488-7000.

Car-fe supporting
local Netball
We have been searching for a North Shore community entity to support and are proud to announce that we have decided to support North Harbour Netball – that wonderful organisation based at Onewa.
As a result, as of November 1st 2011, Car-fe Takapuna will be donating $5 of every $15 Wash and Go to the North Harbour Netball Association. So if you want to support Netball on the Shore, just come on in and get a Wash & Go.
We are looking forward to working with the team, so don’t be surprised if on a Saturday or Sunday on the odd occasion you may see the netball girls helping us down at Carfe!
We will be reporting monthly on our contribution by the way of the thermometer (on this page), so keep a close eye on what we achieve.

Merry Christmas
& Happy New Year!

Car-fe will be trading through Christmas and closing only on
public holidays. From all the team at Car-fe Takapuna have a safe and fun Christmas break and we look forward to seeing you in the New Year.