V5c hasn't turned up after 7 weeks of ownership!

If you have the green slip and an invoice/receipt I wouldn't worry too much.
Use the reference number on the green slip to check the car's status on the VSA site.

Oh dear....DVLA service these days is a bit of a mixed bag. You are sure the original owner has sent the thing to them aren't you?
Go here: emaildvla.direct.gov.uk/ Follow through the multi-choice paths until you get to the bit for not received a V5C and it's more than 4 weeks ago. You'll get a proforma on screen to fill in the details.

Do all your comms to them online so you have a record or you're probably going to get stung for a £25 fee for a lost V5C replacement. Better make sure you're up to date on SORN too if it's needed.

Having moved house I had to redo the V5Cs for my "fleet". Went AOK for first two, went pear-shaped on the last two. I sent both the last 2 V5Cs in the same envelope. Got 1 back and nothing for the other. Waited 4 weeks and then filed a missing V5C request, pointing out that I had obtained proof of posting and had got 1 back so I know they received it anyway! Got given much of a run around as it seems proof of posting is nothing more than a reassurance to you as nothing happens at their end to prove receipt.

Now at one time DVLA wouldn't accept signed for/recorded delivery hence the reason I had gone for proof of posting. Luckily for me I had the indirect proof as I'd got 1 V5C back. Eventually after several emails they conceded that I could have a new V5C without having to pay their £25 fee for a lost one (big concession since it was obvious they'd lost it).

I filled in the form and sent it off, carefully addressed to the case worker/team dealing with it. Fortunately this time I'd sent it signed for as 3 weeks later I get a letter from them saying they haven't received my reply and I'm holding up them progressing the job! Instant check with the PO online showed my documents had been signed for at DVLA 2 days after I posted them. I used the email proforma again to fill DVLA in on this and finally got a kind of apologetic reply and 1 week later my (new) V5C finally turned up.

I'm still not out of the woods though as I'd discovered that this particular vehicle had been registered from new with the wrong engine cc: 1657 instead of 1647 cc and I asked DVLA to amend it while doing the V5C. No chance, even though the maker never, ever fitted a 1657cc engine to this type of vehicle. They sent me the V5C still showing the wrong capacity and also sent a list of documents etc I will need to track down, or get an independent garage report duly signed off (and paid for by me) to prove the actual cc! As they say "I'm working on it!"

Have you taxed or declared SORN yet, if not do that now and that will trigger a new V5 to be sent, as for the engine size the earlier Spits were 1500 and the later ones were 1500 its likely DVLA cockup but you need to get it changed when you have got your new V5

You can't sorn on the old slip- only on the new doc.

You can tax, as new owner, on the green slip, either online or at the Post Office.

That green slip will get you a free V5c in your name. Just attach it to the application ( keep a photocopy)

This happens a lot, it's just the luck of the draw.

At 7 weeks, your position, I'd apply. Using that green slip.

Conversely, having taken ownership of a car recently and did the change of owner online, the new logbook arrived after 4 days.

Sounds to me like the seller only had the old style V5, the type from the 1990s before we went for the EU style one, as that had a tear off bottom section. But even then, he should have send off the top part. This shouldn't matter if you have a receipt, but it worries me as someone else might have the new style one (the real owner maybe)

This style...

You're right Dan, you can.

But I've had a very large percentage fail on that basis - each one needs checking after Registration is confirmed transferred

3 months for mine , always send reged post dvla always say lost post