There certainly are ways to game the system and they certainly work - most of the time. However, back to the OPs question, it is quite common for travellers to leave their vehicle in Argentina for extended periods while they go back home for a few months. 8 months is the usual limit and in my experience even though even doing that is probably illegal, there is never any hassles from immigration when leaving or returning PROVIDED you don't ask aduana if it is OK because they will say NO.
(However look at the current in Uruguay where there are a lot of anxious owners, some with hugely expensive RVs and trucks, sitting around for months hoping they can get their vehicles out of impound)
So, if you left and never returned .....? and gave the keys to a local for safekeeping ...??? and ....
But to make it clear, when you enter a country and bring a vehicle in under a TVIP, you sign an undertaking to always have it under your direct control while in the country and to take it with you when you leave. With very few exceptions.
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