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The wires are fine, they were engineered to handle the electrical load of normal operation. If the wires have overheated it's because something shorted out or someone connected the electrical wrong.

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Q: Why does the ignition wires on a F150 1998 with 4.6 go bad are they not heavy duty enough?
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