Stupid question I know.

[greatjorb88]

I just bought a '90 legacy with around 168k on it and was wanting to do an oil change. What's the best oil and viscosity level to use with these cars? I would just look it up in the manual, but it didn't come with one. Plus I was hoping a message board full of suby enthusiasts would be crammed full of reccomendations. thanks

[Manarius]

10w-30 I think is what the manual calls for. You can pretty much use anything from 10w-30 to 20w-50 - I've found that the cars are rather versatile in their oil usage.

Brand doesn't matter and I'd stay away from synthetic - you'll make your car leak so much oil that way. Dino oil is just fine for your purposes and you don't need to waste the money on the synthetic. You wouldn't really gain from it anyways - the non-turbo Legacy isn't a performance vehicle anyways.

[Murphy]

ive got Penzoil Advanced Protection 10W-30
and a little bit of 15W-40 that i put in cause i couldnt find any 10w-30 laying around, it was for deisel trucks, but i doubt its makes much a differance

[ericem]

Subaru told me its 5w-30. Here is whats in the manual.

http://www.main.experiencetherave.com:8 ... er/097.jpg

Got that from Josh's website that manual has ALOT of good info about our cars !!

http://www.main.experiencetherave.com:8080/owner/

[Legacy777]

Yes, the owner's manual for these cars is extremely detailed. There's a lot of stuff in there most people don't even know about.

It's good after-dinner reading