No need to cut the carpet out, it is only held in place at the frontmost end by several plastic grommet-like caps that pop right off. They're pretty hard to get to under the bottoms of the rear seatbacks. I've actually had several of mine go missing at some point, bought a few at $.10 each to replace a couple months back.

Brent
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