I will express IMHO.

On the windscarette plate, I specified the recommended class of oil on the API, i.e. Not recommended the use of oil class below. Above it is possible. If SJ is written (for me), then you can pour oil classes SJ, SL, SM. This classification characterizes qualitative characteristic oil, its resistance, purity, viscosity, fluidity, detergent and antioxidant properties. These characteristics affect the health and durability of the engine, its purity.

No other restrictions makes a manufacturer.

The first parameter is to start a cold engine at a street temperature (the lower the value, the more in the stronger frost, the oil will save its viscosity characteristics and allow you to start the engine).

The second - shows the degree of preservation of the density during heating, with the mode of operation of the engine, which is often characteristic of it.

From this we conclude that in the averaged conditions:

The first digit of the index 5 (for winter) and 10 (for summer) is quite suitable for our conditions, if in the winter it is very cold, then we use 0. There is nothing bad if you will use 5 or 0 - the engine warms up and this parameter nothing means nothing. But if in the winter to use 10, 15 or even 20 - then the engine will simply not start, and if they start, the first minutes of the engine on the frozen oil will be a serious oil starvation caused by its low pumpability.

The second digit is a heated engine. If you are not a racer, the engine is not spinning to red, they do not greatly exceed the speed, and live in Africa, then 30 is fully justified. If a working temperature The engine is usually enhanced - like to drive, dive, on the track are driven "sneakers to the floor", the street temperature is constantly kept above 30-35s, or last winter you changed the thermostat to "hot" - it makes sense to pour oil with a higher index 40 , 50, 60 (depending on the degree and number of coincidence of the listed categories).

It is also impossible to forget that if the engine "eats" the oil is the increase in the second index, you will reduce its appetite.

But here you also need to be friends with your head. For example, in the Z series engines, the timing chain drive is lubricated motor Oil, and for normal lubricant, the manufacturer recommends the thickness of oil 20 or 30 (the second index), it is quite obvious that with a larger oil of the oil in the standard engine modes, the chain can not be blurred.

In general, the choice of oil remains behind the motorist, there are only recommendations from which it is possible to move, but to do it with the mind and consciously. IMHO.)))))))))))))))