You should check the resistance of each plug. REAL NGKs are generally between 4-6 ohms while the fakes are all over the place some going down to 1 or 2 ohms and often up to 11-12. That hugely fluctuating range is perhaps most indicative since the minute details of the box and construction details are difficult to assess if you don't have a know genuine NGK in front of you to compare. Thanks for your efforts. The red interior of that car is VERY nice.
By the time the video is half way into some sort of comparison it seems like he mixed/confused both plugs and started talking just based on differences until both plugs started to look fake
You mixed up the two, the one with the nice sweeping radius going to the electrode is the original one, the one with the 90° electrode is the counterfeit
no he didnt. the one with the thinner tip is the real one and its always rose gold never silver, i have personally been through 3 dozens of fake and real ones that i can tell them apart just by looking now, the metal peice is also perfectly straight on the real one aswell as the serial number is always around the same area underneath the ngk Laser writing (ngk has now switched to laser printed labeling to help differentiate the fake ones) unlike the fakes which can have the serials anywhere on them, the fakes have gotten so good now that many people like you cannot even tell the difference in them.
There's no real vs. fake. At the very best one can label some "knock-offs" but surely not "fake". Some are made in China, some in Japan some in Taiwan, some in the US. Different certifications, different packaging, different production costs and surely different quality but no one has ever been able to prove than one was of less quality than another other than making uneducated guesses like " I have a friend whom..." Price is surely not an indication either, sellers proposing knock-offs aren't stupid, they will make their price competitive but not low enough for raising eyebrows. Only way to avoid knockoffs is to buy premium brands whose production volume is low enough not to attract knockoffers.
@@nastysoda9212 all NGK packages say "made in Japan" no exceptions, even when assembled in the US, Mexico, Thailand, China and even Japan. Not afraid of making a fool of himself this one
And when a whole set only costs 13 bucks off Ebay you know their fake. They are at least 10.50 a piece at the parts store. Had a fake set go bad after 5000 miles, i got lucky
@@ramiroandher started getting misfires and they looked like combustion gas was going right through the insulator. The gaps opened up huge, also you should mention the real oem ones for my Honda came gapped right down the middle of the range, didn't have to touch the gap.
Yeah man you got lucky , these companies will make money off of anyone selling crappy plugs, and people will not be aware that they are fake, they go based that it's cheaper, and buy them. Yes that's another thing I forgot to mention, thanks, yeah I noticed that when I tried gapping them, they were already pre-gapped,
The "real" ones in your clip are made in Shanghai, I have a set of those too. Only difference between the ones from Shanghai and some others is the cardboard cover is plastic and has a tighter fit to it.
