Don't Get Burned Buying Counterfeit Ford Motorcraft Parts!

I buy ford parts on eBay but the seller is ford dealership

Need a video on latest best plug for 5.0 coyote …dose motorcraft even make an iridium for it anymore ?
Most say sp 548 but that’s platinum

Great video I got to watch some more of your videos

Good stuff. Thanks for sharing the info and your experience. 👊🏻

I buy these at the dealer. Never worth the risk.

I live in Europe and bought 10 Motorcraft FL500S oil filters for my mustang bullit from Rockauto five years ago.
On the oil filter it is painted made in china !!!!
I don't believe it !!! How can Rockauto sell Motircraft filters made in China how can I know if they are real or fake.
It's a shame for this American company
I'm afraid to use them so I'm going to get one from the dealer

Someone was really desperate on making money

I use Tasca Parts for my Ford needs

How very true I've seen my self! Thanks china

Thank you...just found out all my truck issues hopefully..I just bought 2 coils from advanced auto. They are real..however got 8 fakes from ebay today ..then after your video I found out the original coils were fake with yellow on top and says Motorcraft with same type of label ing as the other fake.un real just had shop put plugs in .to...they didn't know or say anything..have 2000 f150 4.6

what about rock auto . they are pretty good

Who cares if it’s Ford or not. If it works it works. Seems like your making something out of nothing just to get viewers.

Amazon and Ebay have a good return policy. I bought and installed, one cheap, counterfeit, ignition coil and it's still good after 30,000 miles. Performance has been good too.

8 DG511s too good to be true if theyre less than $100 for all 8. AutoZone and others sell them for $80 a pop. Thats $640.

No grease marker on my harness plugs and no fomoco stamos on any. None of the sprongs protrude.

Wow. This is probably why my trailer brake control isn’t working even after programming Thanks

I got one from Amazon, can't tell if it's real or fake, this is slightly different, DG 542, paint is in different area, top recessed area has no print, bag does have bleed holes...how is one to know for sure?

Gloves😂😂😂

The guy who makes the fake one’s watching this video and taking notes 😂

When I was with GM/Delco in the 1980s, we had a guy who was getting dealer mechanics to save him the real GM/Delco boxes, then buying them and reboxing aftermarket parts into them so that he could then sell them to independent shops so they could show there customers they were using genuine GM/Delco parts to fix their cars. He was making a ton of money.

Well it good to learn all the way to tell the difference, But if i order something and some times they will not take electric parts back. This means i am screwed. But thanks for helping.

Those are weird looking spark plugs can they be replaced with NGK Iridium type plugs ? Thank you for this tech information .

Good way to solve this, dont buy ford plugs.

Boggles my mind how many people who drive a $65k truck will try to save a few $ every 5000 miles on cheap oil, and every 30k-60k miles on fake spark plugs. Often times these are the same people who gladly pay $22 for a 16oz Coors light at a NASCAR race.

To avoid the drama, could just buy parts at a dealer or Napa/AutoZone/Advanced Auto Parts.

Thank you @FordTecgMakuloco.

THANK YOU THANK YOU - your AWSOME I really appreciate your Knowledge .

Buy from Rock auto. Problem solved.

Funny, all you mentioned is cosmetic difference. All I'm interested in is performance.

I recently got burned using “OEM” motorcraft coils off eBay. Parts numbers matched and so did the colors on the connectors and boots. Caused a misfire smh.

💙Can you talk about the difference between the 2008F-150 BROWN BOOT COILS/SP509X vs the BLACK BOOT/SP546X please Thank You 💙

Rock Auto baby 👶

Your full of crap and your fake beware people.old stock still is being used

I bought some mercon v off Amazon from seller store named GPS i hope they are legit

I bought one coil online to see if it was in fact an oem part (after watching this helpful video) it wasn't. If it were the real deal I would have purchased the remainder needed but now it's only a spare in case of an oem failure...

I guess by the coils I just put in that I was scammed, just by your description of the spring coming out of or protruding from the bottom of the coils. 🤬 I'll have to look into this!

The gap in quality is much less than the gap in price

I bought a blower motor on Amazon for my wife's 2011 Ford Fusion. It said Motorcraft but lasted 5 months before starting to sound like baseball cards on the spokes of a bicycle. Box said made in Mexico, but the part said made in Vietnam. How can I tell if it's counterfeit?

The fake looked better in quality.

what about Rock Auto? was about to buy motorcraft ignition coils and plugs from them

Someone in the supply chain has to KNOW the product has questionable sourcing.

I'm in the process of installing the OEM brake controller in my F150. I mistakenly bought a counterfeit one off Ebay. Didnt realize it until i watched Smackey's Garage video where he disassembles an OEM and two fake ones. Several people have had the fake controllers melt or catch fire. Thankfully I was able to return the fake and bought a genuine one from an online Ford dealer. Be careful with what you buy folks!

Thanks so much!

It would be nice to have an updated version of this. The Chinese can and will find a way to fake their way into any updated model.

AC Delco also having major issues with parts being counterfeited. Fake AC Delco Spark plugs are known to melt or break after few weeks. Recently in central Mexico a factory was found making counterfeit Gabriel and AC Delco suspension shocks. Shocks were blowing out within 6 months.

Counterfeit coils probably won't weigh as much as the originals, so the weight on the package - i.e. "0.48 lbs" - won't match the actual weight ... a nice easy way to check.

Man i need to go buy me an electric battery car then.

I was about to get internal parts for the 10R80 transmission and was surprised that counterfeit parts have reached here! Luxkily, the dealership parts salesman identified it from the photos before I placed the order. He said the blue color on the package label wasn't authentic!

i feel like the counterfeiters are watching your video and taking notes lol

Realistically does it really matter which one you use?