{"id":8644,"date":"2005-02-18T09:57:18","date_gmt":"2005-02-18T07:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/18\/tire-care\/"},"modified":"2005-10-03T14:48:55","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T11:48:55","slug":"tire-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/18\/tire-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Tire care"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Tires on my car are getting old and bald.  Unfortunately I don&#8217;t have the budget to replace them now and driving like they are is not fun anymore.  So I decided to swap the front tires with back ones to buy myself a couple of month.<\/p>\n<p>I passed by the 24&#215;7 tire care service.  While one technician was swapping the wheels, balancing them and checking for other problems, I was talking to another one.  He told me a few interesting things that I didn&#8217;t know or forgot about.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is a specification of how bad one&#8217;s tires can be.  Police is actually cheching tires on the cars once in a while.  Offenders are fined 50 CYP per tire.  I thought that there should be a law about it and fines and everything, but the accuracy of the claim should be taken with a grain of salt from the guy who sells tires for life.  Anyway, so far I seem to have one tire which is illiegal.<\/li>\n<li>In Cyprus, all cars older than 4 years must have an MOT check (mechanical compliance test).  There is a fine for not having MOT certificate.  But that&#8217;s not all.  Without MOT certificate one can&#8217;t pay the road tax.  Unpaid road tax is a finable offense by itself.  And that is still not it.  Without the MOT certificate, the insurance is invalid and non-enforcable.  That&#8217;s right &#8211; if you will have an accident, your insurance won&#8217;t pay up unless you have an MOT certificate.  Interesting, isn&#8217;t it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, all these news just show that I will be spending a bit more money in the near future than I wanted.  Firstly, I&#8217;ll have to bring the car for service and get an MOT certification while I am at it.  Than I&#8217;ll have to go pay the road tax.  And than I&#8217;ll have to save some money for the tires.  I need to buy at least 2 of those.  All of these make an amount of roughly 400 CYP shine much nearer than the horizon.  Oh, well&#8230;  At least I enjoy every kilometer driven in my car. <\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Tires on my car are getting old and bald. Unfortunately I don&#8217;t have the budget to replace them now and driving like they are is not fun anymore. So I decided to swap the front tires with back ones to buy myself a couple of month. I passed by the 24&#215;7 tire care service. While &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/18\/tire-care\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tire care<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22,2],"tags":[27,55,93],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","category-personal","tag-driving","tag-tuning","tag-tyres"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9012,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/26\/on-tuning\/","url_meta":{"origin":8644,"position":0},"title":"On tuning","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 26, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Today while walking with Maxim, I passed by a municipal parking. 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Not only it will not go flat on you, it will last longer and can be retreaded easily when it gets bald.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7322,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/06\/2004-01-06\/","url_meta":{"origin":8644,"position":4},"title":"2004-01-06","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 6, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Finally, I've published all the recent photos. Some processing is still due, but the stuff you can see in the Photos section is as good as it will ever be. :) Chesters Bar in the evening. When we were driving back, I've managed to find a biggest hole in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14887,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/16\/cyprus-police-anti-brutality\/","url_meta":{"origin":8644,"position":5},"title":"Cyprus police anti-brutality","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 16, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is yet another story showing the soft side of Cyprus police: At around 5am yesterday morning, the police chased a 24 year old across town who failed to stop when the police signalled him for an alco-test. 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