You’re not going to believe this. But I’m busy getting ready to have the new set of spark plugs and the TRQ coil packs installed this Fri… a thought came to mind and I’m glad it did. Seems there is a rash of counterfeit plugs going around and NGK just happens to the one targeted. After doing so research and video watching on others whom have had this same issues, we’ve concluded that we’re 90% sure these new plugs purchased from rockauto are counterfeit.
I sent word to rockauto and they claim they don’t sell counterfeit parts… the issue here is, rockauto doesn’t have a warehouse. Instead they outsource to third parties whom have these items on their shelves and these parts are then drop shipped to you. What’s missing here is that rockauto doesn’t have a quality control center to actually check these parts and this makes the second time rockauto or their third party vendor has sent us the wrong parts. I’ve since contact NGK corp asking how to proceed here…
In the mean time, before Fri we’re be turning to a new (old) brand of plugs and installing these with our new TRQ coil packs. Stay tuned…