hi all. new member here. i was worried i might have damaged my sparkplug wires. i was pulling one of the wires to check for wear, but instead of disconnecting the plastic tube that attaches to the plug, I pulled a strip of rubber out of the top of the tube, and the connector stayed attached. i was worried i might have ripped the wire out, but i saw no metal wire inside the rubber. so i shoved the rubber back into the hole, and reattached the cap. the car started and ran normally, i dont think it has a cylinder out. did i rip the wire or not? i cant decide...

thoughts?

 

You would know if you were missing on a cylinder. It woudn't run 'normal'.

If you decide to replace the wires, just get stock OEM NGK.

I say run with it and see if it still works fine.

 

The rubber boots are independant of the wire and connector, you justpulled the wire through the boot, no big deal

 

I noticed the above post says to use OEM NGK wires.

What about the NGK wires they sell on sparkplugs.com (or whatever that site is).

NGK Premium wire set 9486 HE76 $49.16

The pic shows them as blue. Will these work as well as ones bought from honda? They sell em for like 75bux a set.

 

yes, the aftermarket NGK's are just as nice as the oem plug wires but have blue shielding

 

if possible go with the oem black ones, their imo the best.

 

and what IYO makes them better? Is there actually a physical difference besides being black? Cause they are 25 dollars more, thats alot for a color choice.

 

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i'll second this.
i got a few friends/co-workers at honda dealers who seen too many aftermarket wires including ngk's that goes bad and has yet to see one set of oem wires go bad. even afer 60k+ miles

 

honestly i don't know what the difference is technicaly, but everybody i run with uses the stock black wires and we're all running 400whp+ daily driven cars. just my opinion.

 

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OEM Honda wires are made by Sumitomo, not NGK.

 

my oem wires went bad! and only after 236k!! what's up with that?!?!

 

first off, its a cable, not a wire.. its literally a piece of string coated with copper so it wont produce a radio frequency, thats why theyre so sensative to bending. i dont see why you would be checking for wear? how could they possibly wear?