What are the chances - exact same car assigned at ORD 2 weeks apart?
Sep 13, 2014, 9:00 pm
#1
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What are the chances - exact same car assigned at ORD 2 weeks apart?
Maybe I should go buy the lottery. I returned a car at ORD 2 weeks ago and just got assigned exactly the same car! The stations I programmed are still there. Looks like the car got driven a few hundred miles the last 2 weeks.
Sep 16, 2014, 11:45 pm
#2
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: ORD
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I think the chances are very low, especially at a big station like ORD.
I rent from BOS frequently and have never gotten the same car twice in 8+ years. I've gotten the same make/model/color a few times but never the exact car.
I rent from BOS frequently and have never gotten the same car twice in 8+ years. I've gotten the same make/model/color a few times but never the exact car.
Sep 17, 2014, 1:32 am
#3
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: NYC
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I've gotten the same car couple times mainly because I like to rental signature (BMW) in a row. Even my seat settings were still stored in the memory, but it was driven a few hundred miles in between.
Sep 17, 2014, 8:47 am
#4
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That's crazy in ORD, the lot is huge - it once happened to me in ATL, I went through my e-mails to find the receipt from the past rental from two weeks prior, and it was the same car just with 1000 more miles on it.
Sep 17, 2014, 10:05 am
#5
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Slim but possible?
Sep 29, 2014, 7:21 pm
#6
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I've never had it happen, but I've come close:
My parents rented a car when they came to visit me a few years ago, and about 3 weeks later I saw the exact same car on the freeway (the licence plate number was a very easy one to remember, something like CCC444 or something like that).
My parents rented a car when they came to visit me a few years ago, and about 3 weeks later I saw the exact same car on the freeway (the licence plate number was a very easy one to remember, something like CCC444 or something like that).
Oct 11, 2014, 7:06 pm
#7
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I've never had it happen, but I've come close:
My parents rented a car when they came to visit me a few years ago, and about 3 weeks later I saw the exact same car on the freeway (the licence plate number was a very easy one to remember, something like CCC444 or something like that).
My parents rented a car when they came to visit me a few years ago, and about 3 weeks later I saw the exact same car on the freeway (the licence plate number was a very easy one to remember, something like CCC444 or something like that).
Oct 15, 2014, 11:57 am
#8
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: SRQ - Sarasota, Florida
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At SRQ, albeit a small airport, I had the same while Suburban at least four or five times until I took it one-way dropping it elsewhere and have not had that high-mileage beast back. At ATL I had the same Navigator three times in three months - I remembered that one because there was a mark on the dash that was fairly unique. At LAS I was there back to back weeks with a weekend home in between, was given the same red Z3 for both rentals.