Ebay Coils? Review? Anyone Tried?

[Jonny Mac]

hi, right after trying john (joey200sx)'s coils in my car it completely changed it, ran smoother and pulled better, he has the Apex performance coils at near £300

i've found these on ebay


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Brand-New-...item4abd99cf82

now they look exactly the same as john''s coils (both have red bits) and he said it himself the look identical

anyway before i buy them, has anyone bought a set? i'd like to know what to expect? usual ebay tat or will they be worth it? i'm fed up of buying people's second hand crap now i've decided buy cheap buy twice....(ironic i'm buying cheap ebay tat )

cheers
jonny.

[Jonny Mac]

[profzoid]

I have a brand new set of boxed split fire coils for sale if your interested pal. £300 + postage. I have a set running in mine and i can feel a difference.

[Jonny Mac]

no thanks mate i'm buying the ebay ones

right folks i'll be the guinea pig and i'll buy these

i will put a review up on them with a comparison to joey200sx's apex uprated coils and hopefully get some pics of them side by side if john and i find the spare time.

[Jonny Mac]

right got a set at £170 however i've messaged the seller asking if they will go cheaper for me if i do a review on them on here wonder if he will accept that as a reason to give me good discount haha, he's only moved £5 on a few offers i've made for them so far but hopefully will get him down a bit more.

[800bhp]

You do know the seller is in China?

[Philz0r]

Looking forward to the review

[Daz]

lol, China make fakes of pretty much everything. They are VERY good at making things look identical, such as their version of the BMW X5, or an iPad, or designer hand bags lol.

good luck but I suspect they will be poop.

[59bhp]

lol, China make fakes of pretty much everything. They are VERY good at making things look identical, such as their version of the BMW X5, or an iPad, or designer hand bags lol.

good luck but I suspect they will be poop.

i suspect that the apex coils came from a manufacturer in china in the first place rather than them being made over here and then copied in china

[Tetra]

i suspect that the apex coils came from a manufacturer in china in the first place rather than them being made over here and then copied in china

^^This

[800bhp]

I only mentioned China in case the buyer had missed that and not factored in that there may by Import Charges, Duty & VAT to add, that shipping could take a while and that there will be no warranty.

Nothing to do with the quality of the item as this is unknown as yet.

[59bhp]

Nothing to do with the quality of the item as this is unknown as yet.

seconded

[Jonny Mac]

Yeah I'm fully aware they are Chinese. The guy said I have a 6 month warranty. They look identical to the apex ones but as mentioned could be a copy but then again the apex ones could be Chinese for all we know since they won't give a brand name. Who knows. Lead time for them arriving is expected to be 7 days but i am unsure how customs will go with charges etc. should be fine. Can't wait to try them though. Won't be doing a dyno before as I don't have money to waste haha unless someone wants to buy me a dyno slot for the benefit of this test will also hopefully try them in John joey200sx's car to get his opinion Aswell on the difference.

[Jonny Mac]

2012-10-26 21：00 CHON GQING In Transit To Destination

2012-10-29 09:49 SHEN ZHEN Arrived Hub

2012-10-29 17：41 SHEN ZHEN In Transit To Destination

2012-10-30 14:54 HONG KONG Arrived Had



Status：In Transit To Destination


that's what the tracking number is telling me

must still be in china so far.

[Vez]

I assume you will be rigging them up on some form of test bed and doing a proper analytical test of the two comparrison sets as well as a control set of a set of good condition Nissan standard ones to measure voltage, ampage, number of sparks etc etc?

Or are you going to use an arse dyno?

[Jonny Mac]

well if i can get on the dyno before i fit these i will hopefully be able to do a before and after comparisson, tell me if i'm talking complete rubbish here but if i booked a 2 run dyno session i could do one run with original coils and then one run with the ebay coils or does the ecu need time to 'learn and adjust' or am i talking utter crap?

[Jonny Mac]

put these in today

rev hard car splutters and misses....

idle car is lumpy

messaged maxspeedracing on ebay told him about it

waiting to hear back

didn't expect them to be good tbh....not surprised ebay crap

could just be a bad set but could be a million other things

however that one time with john's car's apex red coils my car was perfect, so maybe these are not the same as apex ones?

[Limitless Imports]

You'll be lucky to hear back mate. The guys prob laughing all the way to the bank. Buy cheap, buy twice.

[immy21]

Fair do's for trying them though and sharing with us.

[Jonny Mac]

i'd like to think i'll be safe enough here, the guy said they have a 6month warranty and i did buy through paypal so i have paypal protection to make a claim if things get bad.

don't get me wrong they did make a difference but they aren't 100% compared to the other coils i tried from john's car.

i done a boost leak test aswell today and my intercooler setup holds perfect boost at 20psi just to be sure it wasn't anything else.