Nope! Not unless you increase it to the point of reducing contact patch
enough to reduce traction enough to make a tire slide. Running front
tires soft is a common practice for many cars, particularly rear engine
cars such as the Beetle and Porsches.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of don spence
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 7:16 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: 215/70: Cold Tire pressure

Wouldn't increasing the front tire pressure INCREASE the under-steer?

On Wednesday, March 10, 2004, at 04:47  PM, Automatic digest processor
wrote:

> Matt,
> The door jam sticker lists the pressures for your van if it was
> equipped
> with the factory 205/70 reinforced. Use those pressures as the
> baseline.
> You may want to increase the front pressures to reduce that
> under-steering effect.
>