Since this was made years ago,
I guess it is kind of okay for me to go Necromancer on this thread, since someone brought it back from the grave. This way all the new members can know whats up.
I've had the TRD door stabilizers since beginning of 2013(?),
not sure, but I've had it long enough when these cars are still considered new to the public eye.
I'll be honest with you. These two-four pieces of metal makes almost-to-no difference whatsoever. Whether you're tracking it or just driving it to point A to point B, it does nothing.
Tracking, you can feel a SLIGHT improvement. To be honest, I'm not even sure if it's the placebo effect fxcking with me. But I guarantee you it's probably your other suspension components that's doing the improving. The TRD door stabilizer is just the cherry on top to the improvement. I mean, I guess it helps...
My door stabilizer was installed at the very end after my suspensions change.
Regular driving? It won't do
jack-shit. It'll just give you an extra point in the cool department.
Should you get it? No. Only get it when you absolutely run out of ideas on how to spend your money. Or it should be the last thing on your list...
When I got these installed, I completely forgot about it the next day and on-wards, until a few months later when my co-worker sat in my car and then she noticed the extra shine and started playing with the reclining mechanism on the stabilizer. Then I was like, oh yeah my $150 dollars.....1 cool pt
Till today, these are just a cool factor, and a fun little thing to have to boost your car's ego.
I don't know about your bicycle joke though..
And ointment, not sure if it's a joke or a real question, but haha!
*edit: Now let's put this topic to rest