[jore]

From what I know, this is not only a normal thing to do, everybody is doing it. The reason for renting the car and not buying it is not only because it is much faster to get your hands on the car, much cheaper and much easier, but what would they do with do many cars that should be bought after disassembling them and doing whatever they want to do? They do not do this for every car, but with so many manufacturers and car models every year this could well be 50 cars a year. An interesting thing I know is that it could take 2 days to disassemble the rented car, one day of photoshoot and then two days of assembling the car back. And even for experienced people like them breaking some parts while disassembling is also a normal thing. So very often cable ties are used to hold some plastics or other parts together. Important is that they are not visible during visual inspection when they return the car back