Hi, ever since I got my gold '92 244 I wanted to swap the tan cloth interior for black leather. Just won an ebay auction for an '81 parts car with good looking interior. Since I don't need or want a whole parts car, and its quite a distance away anyways, the seller is willing to ship me the parts I want. The auction price was definately cheap but shipping the whole seats is going to cost more than the car I'm sure.

I'm considering having just the covers and black plastic hardware sent but I wanted to know if they're going to be a direct fit on my foam and frames. For one thing, I know that the bottom cushion foam in the leather seats has a slit in the middle that holds a metal bar which those buttons attach to. Also, the foam in my bottom seat cushions in both the front and the back seems to be softer than I remember from other 240s with vinyl, leather, or even earlier cloth seats. This is particularly noticable when pushing down on the egde of the bottom cushion, its much more flexible than the other types. Is this a less dense, softer foam or simply due to a less rigid covering (ie cloth instead of leather)?