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MaryPhillips   
20 Jul 2008
Law / Obtaining PESEL, ID Card and Passport in Poland [39]

PESEL is a 11-digit number, where the first six digits mean your date of birth (in the order YY-MM-DD), so if you're born in 1981, May 17, your PESEL would be 810517xxxxx

Do you know if you need a Pesel to buy car insurance? (Assuming the car is LHD and registered in Poland) Thanks
MaryPhillips   
21 Jul 2008
Law / Obtaining PESEL, ID Card and Passport in Poland [39]

Oooh thank you! All these bureaucratic hurdles are doing my blood pressure no good at all! Do you mind telling me which company you bought your insurance with? I've been told that the only company who will insure me are PZU and that they need a Pesel, but I've read on this forum about several that will insure foreigners. Maybe they are not all the same. Thanks
MaryPhillips   
11 Aug 2008
Law / Car Insurance in Poland - any company that will honour British no claim bonus discount? [30]

it must be altered to be LHD. is that right?

Yes that is right. If you buy a RHD car in Poland, or import one, you cannot register it until it has been converted - they will not register RHD cars. After conversion (which is an extremely cfomplex and expensive business) it has to pass a test by the equivalent of an MOT testing station and the advice I was given is that they are very reluctant to pass it because if you later had an accident and it proved to be the fault of the conversion, the MOT tester would get the blame for signing the car off.

Best look for a LHD car.