New Log Book Delivery Timescale

[DanG355]

I am waiting for a log book for a recently purchased second hand car. The DVLA website always says wait 4 weeks before contacting us, but in real terms I have waited anywhere between 4 days and 3 weeks in the past.

I couldn’t see a thread for what I propose, so I thought it might be useful for people to update this thread. Date you bought a car, date the logbook arrived along with a rough idea where you are in the country. We will all have a rough idea of the waiting time from the DVLA at any point in time.

For my recent purchase it is
Bought: 08/03/23
Log book received: TBA
Area: Essex

I will update when I receive the log book and hopefully fellow PH’ers will also update this and find it useful.

[anonymous-user]

The change of keeper request was entered via the DVLA website

Bought: 12/02/2023
Log book received: 16/02/2023
Area: Surrey

I thought four days was pretty impressive, especially as one of those was a Sunday

[samoht]

Bought: 15/02/23
Dealer actually registered sale online with DVLA: 09/03/23
Logbook received: 11/03/23
Area: Cambridgeshire

If the seller does it online I think it's pretty quick, if by post it can be weeks.

I'd note that you can go onto https://vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/ and check the latest logbook date, so you can tell when they've actually printed it and you're just waiting for the post.

Also as noted the dealer I bought the car from forgot to register the sale with the DVLA, so if I hadn't asked them then I could have been waiting indefinitely. But once they did it online it was 2 days.

[Scrump]

I have found a huge variation in time depending on whether the notification of new keeper was done by post or online. Online seems to be quick (a few days) whereas post can take weeks.

[Ian-266b5]

Picked up my Fiesta ST last Wednesday PM, log book arrived Saturday. All done online on the day of collection.