Can balancing compounds and TPMS sensors co-exist in a tire?
By: Bob Ulrich Balancing compounds are not a bust when it comes to using them with tire pressure monitoring systems. Myths can be fictional or factual. They also can be a lot of both. That is why you never accept a myth at face value. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman don’t. The co-hosts of Discovery Channel’s “MythBusters” take a myth and tear it apart; after they are done, the myth is either “busted” or proven true. “MythBusters” recently examined the myth that all rubber on the road is from retreaded tires, which we in the industry already know is false. “If I could snap my fingers and magically make all retreads disappear from the world, there would still be plenty of tire debris on our highways today,” says Harvey Brodsky, managing director of the Tire Retread Information Bureau, commonly referred to as TRIB. It would have been both interesting and entertaining to see what Adam and Jamie conclude, but Brodsky told us the show didn’t make the cut. A lot of commonly believed tire indust
