I come from a car family, the kind that always had four or five vehicles in various states of “restoration.” Changing your own oil in my house was not only a rite of passage, but a duty—proof that you were self-sufficient and economical and not, as my uncle would say, a “handy-man.” (“I open my wallet and hand over my credit card!” he’d roar.) Suffice it to say, I changed my own oil for most of my adult life, until about eight years ago, when I bought my first new hybrid SUV. Opening the hood for the first time, I saw an arrangement of black plastic rectangles, not the discrete auto parts I recognized. I didn’t know how to change the oil, and further, I wasn’t sure I wanted to figure it out. I was (and still am) also a working parent, and always appreciate having another chore taken off my plate. The nearest oil change facility nearest my house turned out to be a Valvoline Instant Oil Change, and I have been going there ever since, for both that same hybrid SUV, and a second one I bought a few years later.…