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So I received the Aliexpress replica. It's a 99.9% copy of the real deal. The armrest material actually felt like higher quality, but with poorer adjustment at the seams and poorer shutlines.
The frame also has its holes positioned in a very slightly different way, so if your console is already drilled for a genuine armrest, swapping a replica on would be annoyingly complicated.
My plan of using the inner lid of the replica armrest and keeping the other original parts worked in the end. It required a some adaptation to mount the lid to the padded part of the armrest, but nothing a little elbow grease couldn't fix.
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