Rovers North Catalog

[stonefox]

Does anybody have an old Rovers North catalog lying around ? I'm referring to the old catalog not the Rovers Magazine. I heard they are not printing them anymore.

[msggunny]

Does anybody have an old Rovers North catalog lying around ? I'm referring to the old catalog not the Rovers Magazine. I heard they are not printing them anymore.

I have one, its for the series/defenders.

[SafeAirOne]

Does anybody have an old Rovers North catalog lying around ? I heard they are not printing them anymore.

Did you hear that from RN?

[Erik B]

Good morning, we no longer print the catalog for Series and Defenders or the Discovery and Range Rover. We have moved those to our web site. We do send out the Rovers News every 6 to 8 weeks, which is a news letter and catalog combined.

[jac04]

Stonefox- sent you a PM.

[alaskajosh]

Good morning, we no longer print the catalog for Series and Defenders or the Discovery and Range Rover. We have moved those to our web site. We do send out the Rovers News every 6 to 8 weeks, which is a news letter and catalog combined.

BAD NEWS!!

A hard copy catalog/reference is one thing that set RN apart and made me more likely to do business with them. Web catalogs, no matter how good, are clumsy by comparison. Going to a web catalog was a big reason I quit working with the big outfit in CA... I guess the playing field is leveled again now.

[yorker]

God that sucks, the web catalog is useless when I am on the road or in the garage.

[mongoswede]

The news/catalogs...while not as good as the full catalog are pretty good. The great thing about a catalog is that you can look through it and you often see things that you might buy that you otherwise do not see online. Online I am looking for something specific and I go for it alone. Catalog seems like a better chance for side sales.

Even a single catalog with a seperate price list would be good. That way as prices and availability change you could just update the price list while the main catalog would only get updated once a year.

[bkreutz]

Last spring, when I was placing an order, I asked about a printed catalog, they said they stopped printing them but would look around and see if they could find an old one lying around. They did and sent it to me with a sticker on the front that said "This is only for reference, part numbers and prices may no longer be valid". Might not hurt to call and ask. Maybe they still have some on a shelf in the warehouse. (only for reference though)

[alaskajosh]

The great thing about a catalog is that you can look through it and you often see things that you might buy that you otherwise do not see online. Online I am looking for something specific and I go for it alone. Catalog seems like a better chance for side sales.

This is just the point I wanted to make. I'll frequently thumb through the catalog, with nothing particular in mind, looking for things I "need". I'd never do this on a website... in fact, when I do have something specific in mind, I usually can't find it on the website... that's probably just me... but I can turn right to it in the print catalog.

If something has to go I'd prefer to do without the "News" thing. I like it very much but I'd rather see the limited budget spent on a good print catalog/reference. Even if it only came out every other year, or even less frequently, with an understanding of changing prices.

[Cutter]

I wonder if the demand is there if they could SELL a printed catalog without prices or with prices as reference only each year- could almost be a collectors item of sorts, contains all the articles from the magazine in a more permanent format. Not hard cover but on nicer paper. The feller who does the nice paintings/drawings of rigs could do a cover etc.

Just a thought. Probably wouldn't make much money.

[stonefox]

Well I guess everybodys in the same boat.I would surely buy one ,hell I'd take an old one with coffee cup stains on it.
I'm no marketing genius ,but I know I would definately buy more out of a catalog,if nothing else my extra purchases would probably pay for the printing costs.
I'm sure we all get a Northern Tool & Equipment catalog,I thumb threw mine at least once a week.I buy something at least once a month out of it just because its there.
Anyway, if anybody has a old stack of these on the back of their toilet,I'd sure love a hard copy.

[siii8873]

Stonefox,
have you found a catalog? If not PM me.

[RoverForm]

Good morning, we no longer print the catalog for Series and Defenders or the Discovery and Range Rover. We have moved those to our web site. We do send out the Rovers News every 6 to 8 weeks, which is a news letter and catalog combined.

so then is there a difference between the Rovers North 'magazine', 'catalog' and 'news? Is the Magazine the same as the catalog?

If so, then that means that this: http://www.roversnorth.com/store/t-downloadsrnnews.aspx is not available in print?

[morgant]

so then is there a difference between the Rovers North 'magazine', 'catalog' and 'news? Is the Magazine the same as the catalog?

If so, then that means that this: http://www.roversnorth.com/store/t-downloadsrnnews.aspx is not available in print?

"The Rovers North News" was renamed to "Rovers Magazine" sometime in the last year or so. It is still a magazine & catalog combo. The link you provided is to the electronic edition of "Rovers Magazine", but they still send out print copies.

The catalog they're referring to was the comprehensive catalog for Series/Defender Rovers that they also used to offer. It seems I must've gotten one of the last ones as well when I bought my truck a year and a half ago. It's a nearly indispensable part of my growing repair book collection as it's ideal for quickly flipping through for parts, names, and where things are.