240Z: OEM vs Aftermarket center consoles comparison

The Center console of any Z is, unfortunately, prone to cracking over the years, or previous owners have modified it with additional switches or lamps and therefore often cut holes into it. Finding a good center console is hard these days, so I have been trying to find a good replacement over the years. And I think I finally found one.
Note: I appreciate anybody who makes aftermarket / replacement parts for obsolete Nissan parts. This is my personal view and I don’t blame anybody for the quality of their parts or anything, but I just share my personal experience with various products. In The past, I have gotten mad emails because I said I don’t like a specific product or not.
So what are we looking at today? I have a couple OEM 240Z Center consoles with the ashtray behind the gear lever, and a replica from Vintage Dashes, and one from resurrected classics. Please note that all my original Consoles have been heavily modified or damaged in the past, so there might be strange holes visible, which usually don’t belong there, and are therefore not found on the replicas. Also, the “chrome” trim rings on my OEM consoles have been painted black in the past and are therefore not visible well in the photos.

From top to bottom: OEM, VintageDashes, Resurrected Classics:

Again from top to bottom: OEM, VintageDashes, Resurrected Classics. You can immediately see that the VintageDashes has the 100% same construction, even on the underside, as the OEM one, while the Resurrected one uses additional white reinforcement parts. This means the Resurrected one might be a bit more stable than the OEM design, but at the same time also not OEM design.

Here is a closer look at the center section.

A second big difference (again top to bottom: OEM, Vintagedashes, Resurrected classics) is the look and feel. The VintageDashes hit the OEM surface pattern pretty good, and the material feels and looks the same. While the Resurrected has a soft, padded Vinyl feel, which is much more glossy, has a slight blue-/purple-tone and feels weird, somehow. Also, the pattern is pretty different to the OEM one on the Resurrected Console.

The chrome / stainless steel trim on the resurrected console is also slightly bigger than OEM and the fitment of it is not so nice as on the VintageDashes console, which is really close to OEM.
People will barely notice, once it’s installed in a car, but for some people, those details matter. After all, the VintageDashes comes with the highest price tag (unless you find a NOS OEM console, which for sure is more expensive)

For me personally, it’s well worth the extra money, and I will put the VintageDashes in my car. It’s as close as possible to the OEM console, with an excellent look and feel, and so far i haven’t seen anything that feels or looks wrong, but again, I don’t want to advertize any specific product and appreciate anybody who spends the time and money to make a good / or reasonably priced product.