Hey, found a new website... and see some familiar names...
My toad is a lease, but will be buying out as soon as a buy payment equals the lease payment which is coming up pretty soon.
This is toad #4 I think, one of them was a Scion XB and when it got appraised at CarMax they spotted the baseplate and said they would not/could not appraise it or buy it since it was a toad. Automatic disqualification.
On my Subaru I traded in on the Colorado, nobody said anything - they paid off the lease and sold it to someone else.
The Colorado has zero mods on the front end other than the baseplate bolted on. The sockets stick through the grill opening without modification. Taillights are drilled for sockets but you would have to know they're there to see them.
Each place is going to have their specifications for this, so if you tow a lease car you should plan to remove any evidence that it was a toad, or buy it out rather than turn it in lease maturation.
