Great explanation on comparing real ones vs counterfeit ones! Unfortunately there are a lot of sellers as you mentioned selling counterfeit parts. Another example are ignition coil packs. My 2016 Hyundai Genesis/G80 3.8 V6 uses NGK laser IR spark plugs with Denso ignition coil packs, OEM from factory. Searching for both of these items online I also noticed a lot of counterfeit Denso coil packs. If the price looks way too good to be true, no matter how fancy the packaging looks, most likely are fake.
last time i changed my sparkplugs, i also got fake Denso that was priced half. shop said it was "OEM" which i intepret it as car manufacturer surplus or something like that, not a damn fakes!. i noticed it after i found one plugs have bent electrode so i ended up inspecting all of them real close. turns out the tip were NICKEL that shaved to have iridium tip shape!. it is way too smooth to be a laser weld!. glad i found out before installation. got my money back in the end fortunately.
@@badass1g yeah. even if it wasnt damaging the engine, the price was not worth for something that dont even lasts as long as cheap copper plug. pure Chinesium!
I stopped buying from Amazon or eBay. They were fake on most of them. I buy from Napa now, which is a little bit cheaper than the dealer, but they are genuine. The fake ones worn out in less than 20k miles whereas the genuine still look good after 100k.
Damn, i almost fucked up. I ordered some ngks on ebay for 17.00 for 4. Definitely gonna try to get a refund and just go to auto zone. Thanks for the info!
I bought 4 ngk spark plugs from ebay for 19.95$ for my 1999 Honda civic on june 2022. It had 18000.00 miles on ebay plugs. It's my daily driving car. I had issue with my 69 Pontiac lemans spark plugs, so I've done some TH-cam (how to) check bad spark plugs and came to your channel. So i just got back from oreillys auto part with new ngk spark plugs, i replaced them on my Civic and check the difference between eBay and auto ngk plugs and see no difference. Then i used multimeter to check the resister and came back to 4.5 and 4.8 on all of them...and alls were nice and clean burned. At beginning there were no bad symptoms on my honda civic, it just I'm paranoia that i bought a cheap spark plugs. At the end maybe I'm feeling better now that i just spent over 40$ on Oreillys ngk plugs for my Honda.
If you compared them and didn’t see the differences between the real NGK maybe you got lucky 👍. These plus were iridium which are supposed to be really expensive. I don’t think the Honda needs iridium plugs so you are probably fine.
I was about to buy an AC expansion valve for my crv and because I wanted denso part I look on amazon dense was 25 dlls but advance napa between 40 to 60 dlls So i rather get it from them instead of amazon, and then a day later this video came on my you tube app, thank you for share the video.
thankyou for your info just bought a set for my kia rio off ebay and after my mate told me about fakes and they are exactly as you say FAKE,i didnt know, many thanks greetings from australia ian
I paid $40 on the internet for ngk laser iridium for my '16 wrx, they lasted a week and then the strap melted to the electrode on 2 of them. Caused nasty misfire. Had to shell out$80 at O'Reilly's for real thing
there is a test that you'll never miss the original spark plug & that by testing the resistance by multimeter & it should give readings between 3k & 8K ohms. if they are more than 8k ohms it's fake & if it's giving under 3K ohms it's broken. you can find videos about this method
@@don.timeless4993 The ones in the store normally are genuine. The ones selling online are the problems. If NGK iridium is selling less than $15 a piece, I’d be very skeptical. They are selling like $25 for 4 or even 6 on eBay. That’s a guaranteed fake. And my experience proved that’s the case.
I bought from eBay ngk to then I came as cross that they are fake I called ngk to confirm and they are fake as hell I called eBay told them ty Vernon 🙏
I got a blue box like that off Amazon last summer. They were supposed to be denso. After 5k miles i had a slight misfire so I pulled the plugs to find the electrodes melted. They were much better fakes than yours but there was no date code on the hex and the insulators didn't have the same rib pattern as the originals.
I just buy it from the dealership. I don't have to pay labour because i have all the tools . And each plug for my toyota is 2$ a piece. 4 of them + some toyota mobil one oil and filters. I go once a year and buy it all for 50bucks. That's all my toyota needs every year in maintenance.. I do oil change & everything on my own. My car travels almost 1000km each month, so i do it every 6months. 6000 oil change intervals have worked fine for last 11 years. It does not even burn a quart of oil. Oem is the way to go for Toyota's. Oem parts are really really high quality.
Be careful with anything you buy off of eBay and Amazon,I've had knockoffs of just about anything .you can tell by the wording of the ad if read it carefully.dont just take it at face value.
I stopped buying any important parts from Amazon or ebay, buy from authorized Manufacture approved stores, Denso site shows parts stores and Amazon and Ebay is NOT on the list
I put a set of NGK platinum plugs in my car bought from ebay months ago, it's always had a rough idle since then and I know real NGK plugs are good so I agree something isn't right.
Your vid PO'd me! I just filed a Ebay report against No_No Parts on Ebay with 4666 reviews! EBay title: "4PCS Iridium 18846-10060 SILZKR6B10E Spark Plugs For Hyundai ACCENT KIA RIO SOUL" $15.99 EBay limits complaint description, so everyone should do the same description in the - Report This Item - & include: "See TH-cam video "BEWARE FAKE NGK DENSO DELCO IRIDIUM Spark Plugs Ebay Amazon ruin your engine!! Cheap knock off clone"
I have a hard time believing a mechanic for 20 years doesn't know the names of the parts of a spark plug. Also I think you mentioned you gapped them? You don't gap iridium plugs. You don't touch the tip.
I'm sorry, but if a real plug is $15 each and you managed to find 4 of them for $15 and dumb enough to think they are real, at that point maybe the problem is you. I reason why these company are able to sell these carp is some people have no common sense. You wouldn't believe the amount of people that come to our shop and tell us we're trying to rip them off because our prices were too high and they can get it cheaper on Amazon
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Amazon should be held liable for allowing these sellers
Amazon is flooded with counterfeit autoparts labeled as genuine. They're selling fake Denso O2 sensors too.
I agree
Another way to verify is by measuring the OHMS value of them plugs.
I too fell for fakes, they had outrageous OHMS values, my mpg sucked
Great explanation on comparing real ones vs counterfeit ones! Unfortunately there are a lot of sellers as you mentioned selling counterfeit parts. Another example are ignition coil packs. My 2016 Hyundai Genesis/G80 3.8 V6 uses NGK laser IR spark plugs with Denso ignition coil packs, OEM from factory. Searching for both of these items online I also noticed a lot of counterfeit Denso coil packs. If the price looks way too good to be true, no matter how fancy the packaging looks, most likely are fake.
Great point! It’s so scary how much crap is going around. Thanks for the info. 👍
last time i changed my sparkplugs, i also got fake Denso that was priced half. shop said it was "OEM" which i intepret it as car manufacturer surplus or something like that, not a damn fakes!. i noticed it after i found one plugs have bent electrode so i ended up inspecting all of them real close. turns out the tip were NICKEL that shaved to have iridium tip shape!. it is way too smooth to be a laser weld!. glad i found out before installation. got my money back in the end fortunately.
I got my money back on these as well! I can’t believe people are doing this to make a buck…. Horrible way to do so.
@@badass1g yeah. even if it wasnt damaging the engine, the price was not worth for something that dont even lasts as long as cheap copper plug. pure Chinesium!
I stopped buying from Amazon or eBay. They were fake on most of them. I buy from Napa now, which is a little bit cheaper than the dealer, but they are genuine. The fake ones worn out in less than 20k miles whereas the genuine still look good after 100k.
Key tell tale is the Stamped numbers on the Nut flat. Which relates to the factory and manufacture date. Fakes do not have these numbers.
Damn, i almost fucked up. I ordered some ngks on ebay for 17.00 for 4. Definitely gonna try to get a refund and just go to auto zone. Thanks for the info!
Glad you seen this before you installed them!! 👌👌 you’re welcome 👍
i need many, those are mines bro. ima Own AutoZone.!! Lol
I bought 4 ngk spark plugs from ebay for 19.95$ for my 1999 Honda civic on june 2022. It had 18000.00 miles on ebay plugs. It's my daily driving car. I had issue with my 69 Pontiac lemans spark plugs, so I've done some TH-cam (how to) check bad spark plugs and came to your channel. So i just got back from oreillys auto part with new ngk spark plugs, i replaced them on my Civic and check the difference between eBay and auto ngk plugs and see no difference. Then i used multimeter to check the resister and came back to 4.5 and 4.8 on all of them...and alls were nice and clean burned. At beginning there were no bad symptoms on my honda civic, it just I'm paranoia that i bought a cheap spark plugs. At the end maybe I'm feeling better now that i just spent over 40$ on Oreillys ngk plugs for my Honda.
If you compared them and didn’t see the differences between the real NGK maybe you got lucky 👍. These plus were iridium which are supposed to be really expensive. I don’t think the Honda needs iridium plugs so you are probably fine.
I read that the resistance from tip to electrode is very different on the fakes than the real. Should be about 5k ohms.
You on point with the descriptions of fake and new right on
I was about to buy an AC expansion valve for my crv and because I wanted denso part I look on amazon dense was 25 dlls but advance napa between 40 to 60 dlls So i rather get it from them instead of amazon, and then a day later this video came on my you tube app, thank you for share the video.
thankyou for your info just bought a set for my kia rio off ebay and after my mate told me about fakes and they are exactly as you say FAKE,i didnt know, many thanks greetings from australia ian
Glad you caught it before you installed them. 👍
I paid $40 on the internet for ngk laser iridium for my '16 wrx, they lasted a week and then the strap melted to the electrode on 2 of them. Caused nasty misfire. Had to shell out$80 at O'Reilly's for real thing
Glad it didn’t take out your engine!!
there is a test that you'll never miss the original spark plug & that by testing the resistance by multimeter & it should give readings between 3k & 8K ohms. if they are more than 8k ohms it's fake & if it's giving under 3K ohms it's broken. you can find videos about this method
I hate ohm meters they’re so confusing
@@badass1g if you are a car guy you need to learn it 😬
The problem, you have to buy it first.
@@ting2222 you can do the test in the shop or you can make a deal with the shop to test it within 24 Hrs if it's not good you return it
@@don.timeless4993 The ones in the store normally are genuine. The ones selling online are the problems. If NGK iridium is selling less than $15 a piece, I’d be very skeptical. They are selling like $25 for 4 or even 6 on eBay. That’s a guaranteed fake. And my experience proved that’s the case.
I bought from eBay ngk to then I came as cross that they are fake I called ngk to confirm and they are fake as hell I called eBay told them ty Vernon 🙏
Bought a set of 8 ignition coils 12/22 and just replaced my second one a few days ago due to failure. So watch for fake coils.
Someone else mentioned fake coils on this video too 😅 dang!
I got a blue box like that off Amazon last summer. They were supposed to be denso. After 5k miles i had a slight misfire so I pulled the plugs to find the electrodes melted. They were much better fakes than yours but there was no date code on the hex and the insulators didn't have the same rib pattern as the originals.
I just buy it from the dealership. I don't have to pay labour because i have all the tools . And each plug for my toyota is 2$ a piece. 4 of them + some toyota mobil one oil and filters. I go once a year and buy it all for 50bucks. That's all my toyota needs every year in maintenance..
I do oil change & everything on my own.
My car travels almost 1000km each month, so i do it every 6months. 6000 oil change intervals have worked fine for last 11 years. It does not even burn a quart of oil.
Oem is the way to go for Toyota's. Oem parts are really really high quality.
Yowser....... I have a trusted car parts business that's done me right..... I'll stay with them.
Yes I’d def stick with them for stuff like this. I can’t believe the crap people come up with these days to make a buck😅
@@badass1g The vehicles I need plugs for are 5$ or less each for OEM.... I guess that makes me lucky... or just a Ford guy.
Thank you for the video, very grateful. I was considering ebay since I need 6 of them. Going to have tough it up and go to Honda dealership.
You’ll be glad you did. You can also go to Autozone they have legit ones too.
Be careful with anything you buy off of eBay and Amazon,I've had knockoffs of just about anything .you can tell by the wording of the ad if read it carefully.dont just take it at face value.
By the way, a common way to check the authenticity is check the resistance, will you able to measure the resistance of the fake one?
I stopped buying any important parts from Amazon or ebay, buy from authorized Manufacture approved stores, Denso site shows parts stores and Amazon and Ebay is NOT on the list
I put a set of NGK platinum plugs in my car bought from ebay months ago, it's always had a rough idle since then and I know real NGK plugs are good so I agree something isn't right.
Pull them and compare them to the real ones. You’ll see quickly if they’re fake.
Buy 8 pack and break one to see inside and compare it to the old one you have.
Luckily I didn't have trouble with my ngk's off amazon from 2021. The seller is G.P.S. so maybe it depends on the seller on there.
I’d still pull one and if you see it’s a fake I’d replace them with the right ones.
Measure the resistance.
You should contact the buyers support and report the seller
They refunded me
@@badass1g You are bad ass but ur still dumb. You 🫵 know how?? I won't tell you.
I got those iridium fake for my rs660 even the metal part of the original is more like goldish color i just riped the fakes into pieces
We need to buy 1 plug from these sellers & link this video in a bad review!
They refunded me thankfully. The odd thing is they had good reviews 🤪
Your vid PO'd me! I just filed a Ebay report against No_No Parts on Ebay with 4666 reviews! EBay title: "4PCS Iridium 18846-10060 SILZKR6B10E Spark Plugs For Hyundai ACCENT KIA RIO SOUL" $15.99
EBay limits complaint description, so everyone should do the same description in the - Report This Item - & include:
"See TH-cam video "BEWARE FAKE NGK DENSO DELCO IRIDIUM Spark Plugs Ebay Amazon ruin your engine!! Cheap knock off clone"
I have a hard time believing a mechanic for 20 years doesn't know the names of the parts of a spark plug. Also I think you mentioned you gapped them? You don't gap iridium plugs. You don't touch the tip.
15min. We are talking about a 4 banger??? Just get the cheap stuff its the same.
Good looking my boy
cool, but this is not Denso , mine have nothing on the nut? and the price was 15€ each
I got 3 denso spark plugs, no markings on them, and tips are no the same size when using a caliper, im gonna have to buy a multimeter probs
No, mine were not denso but there are many people selling fake denso underpriced so beware. Do your homework before buying any cheap plugs
Thanks for sharing
"These ones",--------- plural and singular?
Grammar police?
I'm sorry, but if a real plug is $15 each and you managed to find 4 of them for $15 and dumb enough to think they are real, at that point maybe the problem is you. I reason why these company are able to sell these carp is some people have no common sense. You wouldn't believe the amount of people that come to our shop and tell us we're trying to rip them off because our prices were too high and they can get it cheaper on Amazon
Please I need spark plugs
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