Subie1987

Depends on your driving and where you live. Long trips? High speed? Cold winters, Hot summers? From an owners manual: "Caution: SAE 5W-30 is not recommended for sustained high-speed driving". From the oil chart, 10W-30 will cover you from below zero to 90 plus degrees F. Oils have changed over the years and so has your engine. EA82? An EA82 with high mileage likes thick oil. Don't freak out about the 'high mileage' term. You can take apart an EA82 with 250,000 miles on it and still see the hone marks on the cylinder walls. I use Castrol 50W in summer and 40W in winter. I don't do synthetics for my EA82. I am not in a hot / cold climate. Finding 50W Castrol is becoming difficult. Engine oil is a gut call and has been discussed ad nauseam. If you have to have oil shipped to you, check out 'ROCKAUTO.COM' for conventional oils. Good luck.

Update. I recovered my Subaru wagon today. Seattle Police found it in a parking lot of a low rent housing development and notified me. Keep in mind that if your vehicle is stolen, opt for the 'do not tow / impound option. Otherwise you will be nailed for tow and storage fees. Always get to the vehicle and then decide what to do. The catalytic converter was not stolen (rare these days ). I drove it home. I must have Subaru zen. The roof top tent was stolen which is not uncommon. The mounting framework attached to the vehicle was left behind. Most mounting systems do not have anti theft hardware. The 'tamper resistant' nuts that I have seen don't work. A cordless grinder will get through the mounts. A guy would have to build a system to remove the RTT after each use. They can be heavy and awkward. Previously, I drove around homeless camps all over Seattle and Kent. Garbage dumps. Face book has a section called PNW Stolen Cars. Check it out and you might be shocked. Ignition cut outs seem to be the way to go for many people. If they want your vehicle and can't drive it, they will tow it. They are pros and probably armed and dangerous. Interrupting an organized theft is risky. Be safe out there.

I could not recover my password for silverback so now I am posting as Subie1987. They stole it again. Silver 87 GL wagon, EA82, 5sd/dr. Washington plate AHR0543. I recovered my Subaru from the 1st event 2 months after it was stolen, 30 blocks away from me. It was stolen for the wheels but when a hubcap was removed, they saw the wrong lug pattern and left. Sat for 2 months in a residential neighborhood unlocked, untouched. This time is different. They got past an anti-theft device. Jiggle key, no broken glass. Stolen by 2 guys in a late model JEEP Cherokee. The front grill is not chromed and is the color of the JEEP body. Florida plates. No color / plate available from an IR surveillance camera. ( A 'JEEP' person looked at the video and ID'd the vehicle. The funniest signage that I have seen on a Subaru is: ' I got your Jeep thing and now it hurts when I pee'. ) With the roof top tent, the vehicle has a unique high profile. The tent cover is black. Tent material is silver. The tent base is supported by 6 'Quick-n-Easy' gutter mount towers, about 8" above the vehicle top. The vehicle was a common sight in north Seattle. The license plate frame reads "Plays well with other Silverbacks". The lift gate has 2 unique bumper stickers. On the left side: "it's a 5 speed and I am ahead of you". On the right side; "Hybrid......the operator, not the subie". If you see the vehicle, please call the Seattle Police Department, 911, regarding incident #2022-9661. SPD no longer answers the non-emergency phone line due to staffing problems. Thanks for your help in advance.