No this title wasn’t written five years ago. I just picked up a 2016 Outback with an in service date of 12/23/2015 with 205 miles on the clock. It was part of an estate and parked in the garage for all that time. I threw a new (larger) battery in it, added some star tron and seafoam to the tank and it fired right up on what must be original fuel. Topped it up immediately with some 93 and then when I got home topped it up again with some 93 to dilute whatever is left. Tried to vary speeds and put under some acceleration and deceleration load with the paddle shifters because here I am breaking in a five year old car.
Any-who I believe it must still be on the ff which looked clean and full before I fired it up. It now has 425 miles on it after nearly 58 months (!) in service. I’ll be changing the oil shortly. It seems that a lot of recommendations from my reading here on the FB engines say to use the factory 0w20 while under warranty but that these motors should really have 5w30. Seeing as I’ll be running out of powertrain warranty with maybe a thousand miles on the clock in the next two months this can’t be a concern for me. I live in RI and this car will probably see at most 5k miles per year. So PP 5w30?
Any-who I believe it must still be on the ff which looked clean and full before I fired it up. It now has 425 miles on it after nearly 58 months (!) in service. I’ll be changing the oil shortly. It seems that a lot of recommendations from my reading here on the FB engines say to use the factory 0w20 while under warranty but that these motors should really have 5w30. Seeing as I’ll be running out of powertrain warranty with maybe a thousand miles on the clock in the next two months this can’t be a concern for me. I live in RI and this car will probably see at most 5k miles per year. So PP 5w30?