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10W-40 is the recommended viscosity, as far as I know. It was running on thicker oil when I got it though, since the previous owner just gave it what he had for his farm equipment.
EDIT: Some form of Castrol Universal.
This would be too big of a coincidence for me to believe. Sounds like someone tried (and failed) to break in.
The closest I have to a horror story is when I visited a DEFA vendor to get new remotes for the alarm in our previous car. I had read the manual for this particular alarm over a thousand times, and searched forums like this one for people with similar systems, so I knew what the procedure would be. The guy at the counter laughed at me when I asked him to order new remotes, and said that if it was that simple anyone could order remotes for any car! I didn’t know how to respond to this, so I just left.
For anyone not familiar with alarms at all: Each remote has a unique ID, and when you order one it is not specifically for your alarm. You have to teach your alarm unit that ID, and then it will be trusted to unlock the car and disarm the alarm.
EDIT: I did end up getting my remotes from a different vendor, and the procedure was exactly like I had found out from the manual.
Imagine a gasoline engine without a butterfly valve, and where the fuel mixture is controlled directly by the gas pedal instead of calculated from air flow and temperature. A naturally aspirated diesel engine will suck in what it can, and a turbo diesel will push in what it can. A lean condition in a diesel will mostly only cause it to lose torque, while a rich mixture will cause excessive heat and soot, unlike in a gasoline engine where these conditions can be catastrophic. I bet there would be no problems designing a diesel engine that uses a butterfly valve and some electronics to control the ratio (and for all I know, more modern diesel than my own are doing it this way).