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Their wording is legal gobbledygook, "have your cake and eat it to". I'm really doing my best not to read much into this but it does state "but it should be changed to 5w30 synthetic oil at the next oil change".

Any specific recommendations? I'm an open book.

Thanks. Of the mentioned oils (or others that you may recommend) which would do the best in hot temperatures during summer months with some spirited driving involved? I guess I should have implied in my original question, which will do best and resist shearing the most?

Thank you for your replies. The manual is here: (cites 2021, but is same as 2020) https://techinfo.subaru.com/stis/doc/ownerManual/MSA5B2105A_STIS.pdf page 46: ENGINE OIL Use 5w30 synthetic, with one of the following specifications: • API classification SN or SN PLUS with the words “RESOURCE...

I have been researching this topic for a couple weeks. Combing through threads here -- I very much appreciate the data, but I can't find a situation that necessarily fits. I have an extended 8 year 80k mile warranty on this car that is "new to me" which I purchased with about 21k miles on it...