A silly season query for Sunday that might provide a bit of fun as well.
Has anyone come across unusual or strange motoring coincidences?
For instance, my Bora's registration number includes the number 289.
That's exactly the same number that a neighbour who lives right opposite has on his J-reg Rover 414.
According to my calculator the odds against this match are 998,001 to one (999x999).
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>>the odds against this match>>
Thinking a little more logically, I've realised that the actual odds would be 998 to 1 to match my car's number.
Still quite high though.
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I lived next door to a fellow a few years ago in Oxfordshire, who had a Cavalier SRI. Whilst walking through Oxford one day another Cavalier SRi drove past with the exact same reg plate as his. Same car, same colour & same plate. He thought his had been stolen but it was still where he parked it. After some contact with the Police & the DVLA it turned out that the DVLA had cocked up & issued the same plate twice.
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There have been one or two reports of dealers PDI-ing a car and fitting different numbers, front and rear.
What's surprising is not that dealers sometimes make mistakes, but that it took owners MONTHS to realise the mistake!
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>>itting different numbers, front and rear.>>
Keep the wrong number on the rear plate and avoid those speed camera fines and points...:-)
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My C max number ends 1690 (not great in N Ireland) my wife's mobile ends ... 1690
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1690
Mmmm yes - see what you mean. Bit thoughtless issuing that one.
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At least its not a new electric orange st focus as well!
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RF - Da DAA. < changes in phone box > Its TOURVAN man
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My car has one of its close relatives living near by?!?
I was driving through one of neighboring towns a little while back, which is about 5 minutes away and saw another Polo Coupe at the side of the road. Looking at it, something was quite familiar (apart from the fact it was another Polo). It took another two drive bys before I reailsed what it was.
My registration is L539 *** but this Polo was L541 *** (with the *** also being exactly the same as mine) so was registered 2 after mine.
Probably not that much of a coincidence considering the dealer is about 17 mile away, but its not the closest, with another dealer in about half the distance. Either way, it made me smile, how sad!!
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Many (many) moons ago mother decided to trade her Mk1 Golf in against a Talbot Horizon (!). We test drove a very nice silver 1.3, and mother then bought a 1.5EX (because it had head restraints as standard). Imagine our surpise when 6 months later our new neigbours moved in with the Silver Horizon we test drove!
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Several years ago, while driving my old BX I arrived at some traffic lights 2nd in queue in inside lane. First in queue in outside lane was another BX reg number A25 FCH - my reg? A26 FCH. We were about 25 miles form dealer who presumeably sold both cars.
Phil
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Years ago I used to have a Renault 11 GTL Reg no B788WWL. I lived in Leicester but used to travel down to the Cornwall regularly.
When passing through Tregony, a village near Truro, I used to regularly see another Renault 11 reg no B778WWL.
Also, a few years ago I scrapped a Pug 309 with the reg no D866BBY. There is an Isuzu 4WD owned by a local garage that has D856BBY.
My late mother's old Escort Mk4 was reg G147***. Sister had a Pug 505 reg no F147###. Suffix letters weren't the same.
Whilst I had the above Renault, my lodger sold me a mini WCL788X, imported previously LHD shed, which I also scrapped for parts.
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When I bought my first car in 2002, I was living in Putney in south west London.
A couple of months earlier a neighbour on my estate (probably about 150 flats in all) bought an identical Renault 19 1.7 TXE, in the same metallic grey colour ("tungsten"), with the same optional alloys, registration G138CPE.
Mine was G967BPE - both therefore registered at the same dealer in Surrey (Guildford?) but approximately two months apart according to a DVLA search.
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A few years ago I had a Peugeot 405 with the reg G302***, I traded it in for a 306 with the reg P303***.
My latest Pug has a reg of WV04***.
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My parents have a number without prefix and have had the number since 1963(e.g.ABC123 - for anonymity).
They have several photographs of the various cars which have carried this number parked beside cars with the same number but with a pre/suffix (e.g ABC123T).
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My parents bought a 1 year old Xantia in 1994 with reg L719 WDL. 3 years later, my Dad bought an AX, reg L919 WDL. Caused some confusion when he sold the AX to my sister and changed his insurance over to the Xantia....
My sister drives my Grandad's old car E843 DEO, and for a while I used to see E842 DEO every morning going the other way - and I live 200 miles from where they were registered.
Given the vast number of cars on the roads, the probabilities of these must be stupendously low. So why haven't I won the lottery...??????
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Is it illogical? It must be Citroen....
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