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Alright, so I have a new Subaru STi on order and my coworker has recently purchased a Mazda 3 2.5L and I was hoping for oil recommendations on both. My only experience with oil changes is that I put German Castrol in my 2005 Volvo S60R and used the OEM (Mahle) filters. Worked great - too bad my...

Originally Posted By: addyguy If I were you, I'd have a good, close look down the oil fill-hole. See if you see any gunk, deposits, build-up. Dino oil in a high-stress turbo engine can spell trouble - there's a thread on here about another Turbo Volvo owner that had major sludge/varnish build-up...

Originally Posted By: addyguy Does the S60R use a Turbo engine? If so, my advice would be to stay with a synthetic, hence my recs. Yeah, the S60R is a 2.5L inline-5 with a KKK turbocharger, with something like 14 psi max boost IIRC. Good for 300 hp @ 5500 RPM and 295 lb-ft torque across most...

d00df00d, Thanks a bunch for the information, that makes a lot of sense. I'm pretty sure I found "made in Germany" on the oils at both places, so the oil at the second place was almost definitely German 0W30. I took a picture of it to remind me but managed to cover up the numbers after the W...

Hi everyone, I'm sure this has been asked a billion times before, but I am interested in what oil I should be running in my S60R. It's a 2005 with 70,000 km (43,500 mi). First, I live in Edmonton, which is a place that sees -30 degrees C in the winter as frequently as it sees +30 degrees C in...