I’m looking for technical help or recommendations on: does the car have tpms system?
Hi all,
I think I know the answer but I’ll ask. When I picked up my car it had around 20-25 psi in all the tyres with no lights on. I pumped them all up to 32psi and no change to warnings etc.
I took this as a sign these cars don’t have tyre pressure monitoring, but I’d like to be sure as I’m soon to change the wheels and tyres and want to make sure there are no sensors I’d have to move across.
Are the tyre valves rubber or metal? If metal then it has TPMS. If you have TPMS, there should be a TPMS light that comes on with the ignition and turns off when started. It’s a cross section of a tyre with a ! In it.
Not on my 2013 car. It’s not that useful anyway - it won’t trigger a warning unless the pressure falls by quite a lot, and the indirect (ABS) type first used by Mazda can throw up false alarms - I got one at 70mph on the M62 in pouring rain, but all tyres were spot on when I stopped, bought something to get change for the nearest garage airline, and got wet.
Thanks for the responses. My bmw had the abs style system with the rotation comparison and it worked quite well. I’d rather not have tpms on any car to be honest. It’s just another thing that isn’t essential that will eventually fail. I just didn’t want a permanent light up if they are supposed to be detected.
I could tell the pressures were wrong on the first drive by how the car felt, we all have eyes and ears and if you had a blowout a tpms sensor isn’t going to help you aside from stating the obvious
My neighbours car has TPMS fitted, I spent about 30 minutes convincing him my air gauges (2) are pretty much spot on rather than the ASDA gauge, which had this particular time broken.
His car doesn’t read all pressures equal even after a drive once set, I rechecked and it still reads an imbalance. He then told me it’s always done that. I can’t win really, he’s not all that up on modern car stuff.
Both my 2015 “standard” Mk3.75 and 2014 25th Anniversary Mk3.75 came with TPMS, so I believe that it’s fitted to all later Mk3.75s.
The differences in spec between the 25th Anniversary and the standard MX-5 are all only cosmetic (paint colour, hand painted dash, sill plates, seat headrest embossing, etc).
The direct TPMS on the current Mazda 3 is nice as it will show you the pressures while driving and you can see if the 3psi/4psi rule (depending who you believe) works.
On my old CX-5 with direct TPMS, you didn’t even know it was there. It may not even have been enabled. Twice a year, I would swap wheelsets and recode the new wheels to the car, but there was no positive confirmation this has been done, just the absence of a TPMS warning light.
Mines the Recaro edition, basically a Sport Tech but with those seats.
It’s a 64 plate so late 2014, no TPMS fitted.
So as reported above the 25th anniversary model and it seems the Sport Tech nav has TPMS. It’s strange they only picked those models to fit it on from say 14 plate until the model run out?
Yes it has that, added to models 2013 (MK3.75) onwards.
It seems any models in 2014 with a navigation system installed from factory had TPMS too, could be incorrect though. Any Venture or Sport Venture owners have it fitted?
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