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Thanks for watching the video, Mike. I regularly add new videos to the channel, though most of them are home repairs.

Thanks for taking the time to comment. It's good to hear that the method in the video helped with the troubleshooting. Hopefully, we will be able to travel more freely soon. Have a great day in the UK.

Thanks for subscribing and the complement, Sherif. My thoughts were that if someone was looking for help with this topic, they probably had very limited experience using a multimeter. After electronics school, I made many rookie mistakes and I wanted the viewer to avoid the common mistakes.

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Thanks the the compliment, Randy. Other than getting the specs for your wires, it's the only way I can think of to get a rough estimate of the correct reading for each wire.

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Thanks for the compliment, Tom. That's what I was hoping to accomplish.

Know How Now . I am probably going to need to use your test this weekend. My brother in laws 2005 PT Cruiser Turbo has developed a bad miss and backfires when he tries to pass another car. The check engine light came on with a P0303 code for cylinder three misfire. I am going to try to help him figure it out. My code reader, which is the BlueDriver, said the most common fixes were plugs or the cam sensor. I will see. Runs great at idle so I don't think it is a vacuum leak. Thanks, Tom

Thanks for the compliment, Paul. (From the voice of Jody Foster.... LOL.)

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I don't know the specs for your plug wires, so I can't tell if that is a good reading. That's why I have you measure all of them so you can get an idea of the correct reading for your set of wires.

Thanks for the compliment, I do my best to make videos worth the time spent watching them.

I live about 50 miles from Philadelphia.

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That doesn't mean anything 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣lmfao just because it arks doesn't mean it's bad lol

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very high for the length...a 3 ft length should be around 9-10k... a 1 ft is usually 3 K ohms

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If you want exact numbers you may want to try to get them from the wire manufacturer. The test lets you figure out approximately how much resistance for a length, then with a little math you can get rough idea if all of your wires are in the ball park of what they should read. If the insulation is breaking down, this test won't help.

I'm not real clear on your question, Saad. I will try to answer. The longer the wire, the higher the resistance reading. You'll need to test all of the wires to get make an educated guess on whether or not the wires are good.

Know How Now I meant that the longer wire usually have more resistance and the shorter has less resistance comparatively, so is there any specific sequence for plugging the wires? like the longer wire must be plugged into the first spark plug and the other end into its rightful place and not plug the longer wire into the third spark plug...?

You have to connect the wires between the distributor and the cylinders according to the firing order for your engine. The longest wire will go to the cylinder farthermost away from the distributor. The 2nd longest to the next farthermost cylinder and so on.

thanks a lot you've been very helpful

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You are welcome. I live about 50 miles east of Philly.

@@Know-How-Now I moved from St. Louis to Philly about 2 years ago, still getting used to the various accents ;)

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I'm not sure if you are asking a question. You can use an auto-range multimeter, that's the kind shown in the video. You can also use type that you select the range. For novice mulitmeter users, I recommend that you buy an auto range multimeter. It's way easier to use and there is less chance for user error.

I'm not understanding your question. I don't know what your meaning of spark plug wire edges.

@@Know-How-Now measuring the spark plug cable with the multimeter gives me resistance but not continuity. So the cable is broken, or am I wrong?

Continuity is around 0 to just a few ohms.... that's what you would read on a few hundred feet of #14 copper wire. Spark plug cables are supposed to read much higher resistance per foot than a copper conductor. www.championautoparts.com/Technical/Tech-Tips/Defective-Spark-Plug-Wires.html

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I wouldn't get upset about a difference of less than 1 ohm. 1 ohm is a very minute amount of resistance. I wouldn't be concerned.

@@Know-How-Now Thank you But..I am very confused, wich one has better resistance the old cable or the new cable?

.4 ohm is so small of a difference that really, both cables are the same. The old cable has slightly more resistance.

@@Know-How-Now But something is wrong. The old cable is very used for around 94000 miles. My conclusion is that the new cable has poor quality. It's impossible 94000 miles but practically with the same resistance of the new cable. I called the supplier and he said: - yeah..no problems bro I will refund the money back. But!! I called Kia and asked what's the standards for the spark plugs cables resistance from Kia Rio. Reply: we are not entitled to inform the resistance standards for those specific cables. Very strange, 94000 miles and new cable with not much difference. Something is wrong.

I made the video because it's difficult/impossible to get the specs (as you have discovered) for your particular set of wires. By comparing them, you can get a rough estimate of how much resistance you should read on each cable to find out if it is broken/damaged inside of the insulation and make an educated guess to replace them. The insulation on the cables breaks down over time and that can fail too. I have no way of knowing the specs for each one of your cables, especially something so small a .4 ohm. Depending on the quality of a multimeter you could have .4 ohm difference from one meter to the next. Likely, your question needs to be answered by the engineering department of the manufacturer. Sorry, I am not one to give you an answer to a question that I don't have the ability/information to answer.

lol you are very funny.. I will never understand...

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Sorry I own a Fluke multimeter. You might want to do an internet search for your specific question.

@@Know-How-Now Good afternoon ma'am! Thank you for your reply i appreciate it. You have a beautiful blessed day!

I hope you have a beautiful blessed day too!

@@Know-How-Now Thank you so much for those blessings! God bless you always!

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You might want to use the term "diagnose" in your search, Gerald. The title of the video says "Test". You won't be so disappointed. Have great day!

Yes, but some people do and they will complain that I didn't show them.

Thanks for commenting Sayed. I'm always open to feed back. What parts of the video would you suggest that I omit?

Know How Now the part concerning learning of using multimeter was too long

I agree, it's a little long, getting accurate readings are critical. My thought was that if someone is watching this video, it's likely they are not very experienced using a multimeter. I see a lot of people with the free Harbor Freight multimeters, probably not great instruments and should be checked prior to every use. Due to a bad pair of leads, I've seen people spend a lot of time and money trying to fix the wrong problem.

Know How Now thanks for your efforts but it would be helpful to point that in video title for example adjusting multimeter and testing spark plug cables knowing that the multimeter you used is not common in middle east and Arabian region, you actually did it very well thanks so much

Thanks for taking the time to give me some feedback Sayed. It's been a pleasure to chat with you.

Ummm I think you are mistaken. You might want to brush up on Ohm's Law. www.cirris.com/learning-center/calculators/133-wire-resistance-calculator-table

Got me wondering why @iwana would think a longer cable would mean less resistance. Probably they rationalized a scenario in which 2 cables of different quality or gauge had similar resistance. In which case the longer cable would get less resistance per inch/meter and hence heat up less. Then it might seem that a less heated cable got less resistance.

Longer the wire, the Greater the resistance ...Fact......you may want to do some research before calling the video creator a noob,,,

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​@@iwanaGoFast2010haha I was just pretending to be retarded