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In extending the mechanic example: unbundled services would be more akin to turning up with a set of wheels and tyres for your track day car in your other car's boot and asking the garage to fit the tyres to the rims and that's it. You'll then fit the wheels to your track day car at home with a view to transporting it to your local race track for some laps and a general jolly.

If you are subsequently silly enough to take your track day car onto the road and are prosecuted for having spacing which allows the wheels to protrude beyond the wheel arch then you have no one but yourself to blame. Certainly not the garage who were merely asked to fit rubber to rim. They never saw the car and never likely knew the purposes to which the wheels were to be put.

That's true unbundled services.

Now if you turned up in your track day car and expected them to work on and re-fit the clearly illegal wheels before you drove off in it... then the garage might have questions to answer.