I am nearing carpet installation and I read in one thread on carpet that when cutting and installing your own carpet verses using a kit, some have said they would use "1 piece" the next time because the carpet was sliding around.
My question is ..does that mean
1-1 piece from front to back on each side leaving the console and transmission tunnel with separate pieces or..
2-Trying to cut 1 piece of carpet for the entire passenger compartment? If so does anyone have a post or helpful hints for laying out a one piece capet template in order to cut it?

I think it would be hard to do the entire carpet in one piece, but some people have done it in a few larger pieces than the typical kit. Lots of threads in here on how to fasten it down. General consensus is 3M spray adhesive, but I think brushable contact adhesive would work as well. Haven't tried that yet myself.
Kirk

Original carpet had screws with grommets to expand the hold on the carpet. If you use jute padding underneath, you need something more than spray adhesive. to make it stay in place. I made a pattern from the original, cut it a little big and trimmed where necessary and then took it to a carpet shop to have them bind the edges (not necessary if you can hide all of the edges) same number of pieces as the original but better carpet, or at least better than what you can get in most kits. I looked at all of them and the carpet was very thin flimsy and cheap looking.