I recently bought a 2010 5 sport. I want to put steelies with good snows on it, since now it has "all season" tires. In doing research I found that it has wheel speed sensors that need to be swapped between wheels whenever you swap. My concern is that I will incur cel's if I buy wheels that aren't recognized Mazda replacements and do the install myself. The whole point is to have 2 sets of wheels so I don't have to pay $70 twice a year to change tires.
Does anyone have any experience with this? Is the wheel speed sensor problem actually a problem? Or is it scare tactics by Mazda to get you to empty your wallet at the stealership? Thanks in advance.

 

As far as I know, there is no such a thing as "wheel speed sensors". That said, your wheels do have TPMS (Tire Pressure Monitoring System) sensors that can either be moved back and forth between your summer and winter set of wheels (a very bad idea), or you can simply buy new wheels with the TPMS sensors already installed (for roughly $250 extra).