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my first concern is finding out why the price is so low. Maybe it’s just the current crisis and they’re just dumping some vehicles to keep volume up? 2016 I think is right around the time they worked through some CVT and oil consumption learning curves. I think you’re good on those but I forget the exact years they mitigated those issues. They updated the weak sauce EPA driven oil control rings rings and CVT around 2016/2017 and I prefer recommending those years. use heavier weight oil than the 0W the factory and manual require. Subaru chains are great. No maintenance and they’re not problematic on that engine. 142k isn’t bad. I usually get them around 120-140 and run them another 20-150k Struts could be tired. Brake and front diff fluids should be changed if you can’t verify they’ve been done recently. Check rust. Rear Exhaust is the easiest place to look. If it’s all rusty and you keep cars awhile I’d proceed cautiously. Yes it’s a 2016 but I saw a 2014 over a year ago that looked atrocious at all the rear exhaust flanges and hangers

They should not have been by Air Bag System.

So I found it easiest to cut unneeded connectors off of the donor harness as your pulling it.While your pulling the body harness cut the connectors off for the horn,AC,headlights,wipers, all the wires to the instrument cluster,and anything further back than the doors, as well as the relay box(you will only need 2 relays and they are under the dash).The 2 relays you will need are silver cylinders, The ignition relay has a brown connector and the fuel pump relay has a green relay.Any wires that go to either of them leave them long and ignore them. Then lay out the harness as it was installed in the car.You are gonna need a fairly large area that the harness wont be disturbed for a couple of days. remove all the tape and wire looms. Pick any cut wire and trace it back to its source.Many wires will end at a splice,cut the wire at the splice but leave the splice intact until its not needed.Some wires will end at the relays/ECM.Its OK leave them long and ignore them for the time being.At the end look up the ecu wire diagram to see what wires you cut are needed.Some will need power...Its a good idea to label the various cut wires (VSS,12+ switched,etc) As your going along the alternator harness will fall out of the harness.Set it aside for latter.Eventually it will need to be wired into the car.There are some diodes in the harness they are important-they are little brown/black boxes with 1 wire in/out. Some 2-4 wire connectors will end up with only one wire going to them.They can cut the same as the rest of the wires.They are probably grounds for components that don't exist anymore. After you have ran out of cut wires I like to cut out the HUGE body connector and splice the wires because it saves space.ONLY cut/splice ONE WIRE AT A TIME! I like to collect and group up various leads by function ie all wires that need 12V switched power,or 12V in run,etc Tape the stripped harness every couple of inches and test fit it in the car, you may have shorten/lengthen varius wires to get the harness to fit how you want it to.Remove harness to modify harness,then test fit.When your happy with the harness remove from the car for final taping/wire looms.

if it's like a squeal, could be the backing plate has trapped some debris against the rotor, or is dragging?

most likely wheel bearing

And then the storage rule will come into play. After years of hanging on to stuff you will Recycle/trash it. A week later, you so some USMB member will need it.

I have that symptom too. I find that it goes away after a while. Coffee usually helps!

different color fluid but directly above the filter is the power steering pump which was leaking on my 05 OB You should see it collect in the recesses on top of engine. once that fluid is exposed to road dirt and such it can appear just as messy as in your picture. also look on top of the engine on passenger side in the recesses. I recently developed a HG leak on top towards the rear where an oil galley can leak through a failed HG but as Numbchux said, you would expect that oil to blow backwards.

AFAIK, this upside-down filter came in on the FB series of Subaru engines around 2011-2012 (in North America at least).