TPMS Sensors?
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TPMS Sensors?
Anyone care to explain on this a little? Not 100% sure what it does, and do we have it in Canada? All the things I've read state America/USA so I wasn't sure if it applied to Canada. I am asking because I am looking for new rims and a lot of them say TPMS sensors are required. Any help on this issue would be great!
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i am confused, i am in calgary but my owner's manual said on page 5-27 that our vehicles have TPMS and something like this. If my car is US model, but i have the headlights washers......or the book is actually not really precise....
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You would know if you had the TPMS sensors, our massive climate changes during winter and summer will set those things off like crazy and you couldn't miss the light that lights up on the cluster. So the manual is wrong, or it is just a generic paragraph they put in all country manuals.
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You would know if you had the TPMS sensors, our massive climate changes during winter and summer will set those things off like crazy and you couldn't miss the light that lights up on the cluster. So the manual is wrong, or it is just a generic paragraph they put in all country manuals.
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That is not the reason why Mazda does not include them in our cars, but IF we had them they would be quite bothersome. Some people wish we had them on Canadian cars, but I am not one. It was probably marketing and demographics that dictates if they were included or not in our cars, not climate. I couldn't be sure though.
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That is not the reason why Mazda does not include them in our cars, but IF we had them they would be quite bothersome. Some people wish we had them on Canadian cars, but I am not one. It was probably marketing and demographics that dictates if they were included or not in our cars, not climate. I couldn't be sure though.
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Oh okay, yeah good point. I don't' use steelies, I just run my winter tires on my stock rims and then I'm going to swap my summer stock tires on my stock rims in April. However, I'd be looking for another set of cheap stock rims to permanently mount my winter tires on next winter.
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Even for the Mazda 3 owner's manuels, it also shows Navigation system in it which was never an option for Canadian models.
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TPMS is a pain, i wouldnt want them anyways. Not with the sensors atleast. our 550 has TPMS but calculates it based on rotation instead of a sensor on the valvestem. To me its a better system. So no big loss.
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