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Maintenance and Care

Owner Maintenance

Tires

For reasons of proper performance, safety, 

and better fuel economy, always maintain 

recommended tire inflation pressures and 

stay within the recommended load limits 

and weight distribution.

WARNING

Using Different Tire Types:

Driving your vehicle with different 

types of tires is dangerous. It could 

cause poor handling and poor braking; 

leading to loss of control.

Except for the limited use of the 

temporary spare tire, use only the 

same type tires (radial, bias-belted, 

bias-type) on all four wheels.

Using Wrong-Sized Tires:

Using any other tire size than what is 

specified for the vehicle (page 9-8) 

is dangerous. It could seriously affect 

ride, handling, ground clearance, 

tire clearance, and speedometer 

calibration. This could cause you to 

have an accident. Use only tires that 

are the correct size specified for the 

vehicle.

 Tire Inflation Pressure

WARNING

Always inflate the tires to the correct 

pressure:

Overinflation or underinflation of tires 

is dangerous. Adverse handling or 

unexpected tire failure could result in a 

serious accident.

Refer to Tires on page 9-8.

Use only a Mazda-genuine tire valve 

cap:

Use of a non-genuine part is 

dangerous as the correct tire air 

pressure cannot be maintained if the 

tire valve becomes damaged. If the 

vehicle is driven under this condition, 

the tire air pressure will decrease which 

could result in a serious accident. Do 

not use any part for the tire valve cap 

that is not a Mazda-genuine part.

Inspect all tire pressures monthly when 

the tires are cold. Maintain recommended 

pressures for the best ride, handling, and 

minimum tire wear.

Refer to the specification charts (page 

9-8).

(With tire pressure monitoring system)

After adjusting the tire pressure, 

initialization of the tire pressure 

monitoring system is necessary to make 

the system operate normally.

Refer to Tire Pressure Monitoring System 

Initialization on page 4-96.

NOTE



  Always check tire pressure when tires 

are cold.



  Warm tires normally exceed 

recommended pressures. Do not release 

air from warm tires to adjust the 

pressure.

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