Registration of right hand drive cars in Poland - possible?

Common sense, living in the UK and Poland, having a Polish wife and more insight than the average person based on my experiences. I travel a lot, within the UK and speak to people.


Yeah if the true figure was known which ity isnt and it was indeed higher than say 1.5 million. The Brits would be even more furious than they already are over immigration. So as usual government agendas skew and play down the seriousness of issues which will affect them negatively.


That's going to depend on the prices of these cars and vans.......as usual.


I got my FX rates confused on this, i meant to say £500 in the UK and sell for about 6000 PLN in Poland.

Cant see what the issue is with RHD cars in Poland.Ive driven plenty of times around Europe and Poland never had issues.Ok hands up Mc D's drive thru is a problem.Why do people have problems over taking?You should always leave a good space so you can get up to speed for the overtake which gives you a good view of the road ahead.

I have two LHD drive car in the UK and its no biggy.I guess if you cant reg a RHD car and the other half wants to move back to PL I would be gutted by having to sell my MK1 Golf

As stated numerous times: appalling lack of PL driver discipline leading to still worsened safety conditions on the road.

Has the law now been changed?

I ask because I have noticed a small but definite increase in the quantity of UK registration plates and right-hand drive cars in Wroc over the past few weeks. Initially I thought it was a fluke, but seems quite a few here. Of course, it could be UK-based Poles back just for Easter and May 1, but it might be the law change and dealers or new buyers.

Anybody know if anyone has succeeded in registering a RHD car here yet?

Theres a gaping loophole there: UK registered, UK insurance, UK MOT = 100% legal in Poland. All you have to do is drive back to the UK once a year for an MOT.

No point in doing that for us Brits (or Poles living in Poland) All of the above means that driving back to Blighty every year to fix MOT and road tax is more expensive than buying a car in Germany, for instance.

Perhaps, but there aren't millions of Polish immigrants in Germany.

Additional 2 or 3 million would greatly improve English landscape.

I very much doubt that. The landscape is nice enough as it is. Mind you, since we all have the right to live wherever we want in the EU, there will be movement in all directions. And the attendant issues of local restrictions on motoring and car registration.

Can i just say again that it was no problem at all to make my English car legal in Moscow , and here in Bulgaria i drove my English car into the traffic police hq and four hours later drove out with tax , insurance and Bulgarian plates . . .

As before - the Poles are operating a protection racket and trying to force the population to buy over priced wrecks masquerading as second hand cars. Registering cars from Britain would allow for a true market to emerge.

The car cottage industry here wouldn't allow for that. It takes over a week goddamnit to register a car from Germany. In fact the only time I bought a car from a salon here I had to wait a week before I could take my new car home, as opposed to America, where you go across the road for a short-order lunch while the dealership does the paperwork.

Polish incompetence or the bureacrats' sense of self-importance is breath-taking.

Hopefully it's coming to an end, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Seems from 1st of January it may happen.......

legislacja.rcl.gov.pl/docs//520/248641/248643/248644/dokument130600.pdf

Basically, According to this project, from 1st January 2015, RHD car will be allowed for registration.
However lights will need to be changed for original LHD lights (that applies to front lights + rear fog light).
Left mirror must give enough vision (there is diagram in the project) - so f.e. cars with smaller left mirror might need to have this changed.

And speedometer will need to show in km/h (or both mph or km/h).

Project is currently under public consultation, If everything goes well, by 1st January, you'll finally be able to register your car.

Some news on this, law coming in next month


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I have just got my RHD car registered in Poland. It is a complicated process involving different government offices. You need to be a Polish resident; you need to have all UK documentation officially translated and presented to Customs, including evidence of ownership. Customs have specified that the car is purely for my personal use and I cannot sell the car for one year. The next step is for a roadworthiness certificate from an official testing station ( to meet their requirements I needed to fit LHD headlights). Next step to the local registration office where I was issued with my registration documentation and plates. I would stress that at each stage there was always a charge, the total amount around 1000zl.

So yes you can register RHD cars in Poland.

And how long did it take? How many hours of your time?

RHD cars in Poland are a recipe for disaster. It's risky enough overtaking buses, etc. in a normal car. I hope I'm wrong, I really do, but I expect to hear about a lot of accidents.

From the initial enquiry to the registration department on what is required to getting my registration document and plates, 14 days. As to the hours spent I did not have my stop watch with me, but much of the contact was by phone total time maybe 30 mins, visit to customs was 20 mins, vehicle inspection 30 mins and final registration office 45 mins. Getting documents translated was just a matter of dropping them off and later collection in normal course of trip to town. Collating and copying documents at home took no more than 30 mins.

Pretty reasonable then - thanks for sharing, c-max owner.

I don't agree Roger. Nothing could make Poles worse drivers than they already are. Driving a RHS concentrates the mind. Really.

you can get special mirrors to clear up any blind spots

Exactly. It was restraint of trade to deny RHS. Like the Polish winter holiday, another ex-communist scheme aimed at protectionism.