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I went back and re-read the sticky on re-upholstering. As I thought, the cloth seats have different foam shape from the leather seats. If you look at some pictures, it's pretty obvious that leather seats have "shoulders" that stick out more.

I think the eBay outfit makes their covers to order to fit whatever you have/want.

There is a guy in the uk that makes custom seat covers for the gen 6 I got the first set off him they are quite awkward to fit to me and a friend a full day to do.





Now I have used the car for a while I need to tighten up the seats to get rid of the minor sags but looks very good in the flesh.

When I ordered my leather covers from eBay I didn't specify that I had the stock cloth foam. The auction was for ST205 covers.

So I got my seat covers last Tuesday! But the bad news is that before I got my seat covers my mom called a car shop to see around how much they would charge to put them in, and the guy said it should be around $120-140. But when I brought the car in to the shop yesterday the guy said it’s going to be more like $400. I should have known $140 was too good to be true. Anyways do you guys think $400 is a bad price?

It's pretty hard, but my husband put my seat covers in my convertible. These weren't available when I bought mine- I paid $900 elsewhere for red and black leather. You do have to take off the old upholstery and buy hog rings and hog ring pliers unless you're just going to use zip ties. You have to be careful not to puncture your leather.

If my husband can do it, I'll bet you can too- if you have patience. He did curse a bit. LOL

I think Ill get the shop to do it because I would have no idea what I was doing, and I have very few tools. But on a good note, when the interior guy at the shop looked at my seat covers he was very impressed with how well they were made and the price i got them for($400). He said if some one came into the shop asking him to make the same covers I had they would be atleast $1500-$1600.