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!

Thanks!
-Canadiann

 

We don't have it.

It lights a warning on the dash if any tire has too much or too little pressure.

S

 

Awesome appretiate the response.

-Canadiann

 

we have the headlight washers instead of these

 

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....

 

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.

 

I guess I'm going to continue my questions on this subject on this thread. So the reason they excluded this from our cars is because of our massive weather changes? What about folks living in the northern states? They pretty have the same climate as we do, or at least here in southern Ontario.

 

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.

 

Thanks for your response dude. Anybody know the reason why Mazda chose to exclude TPS from our cars?

 

TPMS apparently doesnt work with steelies...and a lot of us have them with our winter tires. So in winter, you'll have the TPMS light always on...

 

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.

 

isnt it law that all cars in the states after a certain build date have TPMS, since ford had the issue with its tires on the explorers?

 

That owner's manual is printed for all North American models. And at the very end it states that features might very due to different countries...

Even for the Mazda 3 owner's manuels, it also shows Navigation system in it which was never an option for Canadian models.

 

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.