Get the seat professionally repaired.

Dunno what your upholstery workers get paid in the US, but I had a local guy with a good reputation fix my passenger's seat last year. For a total of $280 NZD, he removed the seat, stripped it, re-welded one of the seat bolster mounts, re-stitched all the "box sections" of the seat where the stitching had come away, and replaced some of the "box section" retention strips, replaced one of the leather panels completely (colour is so close you can barely see the difference) and also replaced the leather "pipe" down the side of the seat with a long-lasting synthetic product of the same colour also. Plus refitting back into the car.

Only 3 days off the road.

In general, I think you will find that you should visit a leatherworks shop, get them to match the leather surface, and then ask them to colour match it to your seats (NOT THE ORIGINAL COLOUR, AS THEY HAVE ALL FADED!) and then take that piece of leather to an upholsterer, and have him fix the seat.

I seriously doubt whether the whole exercise would cost you more than $300 in total - depending on what he finds when he disassembles your seat. You'll probably have a bit of extra sewing and maybe some foam replacement, but the results will be well worth it.

I struggled with what to do with mine, as a friend offered me some really nice S4 front seats (from a car with only 50,000 klicks on it!) and he only wanted $900 for both, but the freight was going to be an extra $200 because they're so heavy. In the end I decided that original seats were better. Don't ask me why...
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