In an effort to improve my dim dash lights, I bought an instrument cluster from an '85 380SE. The light prisms were just about perfect.

Here's my problem. Since the cluster came from a 380SE, the warning lights below the speedometer and gauges are all wrong - there is no glowplug indicator and it has an oxygen sensor warning light. I want to swap the colored inserts (Mercedes calls them rails) from my old cluster to the newer cluster. How do you get them out? Pry on the lower surface of the covering?

Thanks.

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Tom Evans
69 280SE 91K (wish I still had it)
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78 300D 134K
78 300D 185K
81 300SD 301K (still have)
82 300SD 321K (still have)
84 300D 268K
84 6.2 Diesel GMC Suburban 225K (a whole different story!)

IIRC you peel back the felt strip then use tweezers on the section of the strip of warning lenses exposed in the little cut-outs.

Sixto
93 300SD 3.0

Many thanks, Sixto. That worked perfectly. The only thing I would add is that there are several dimples on the bottom edge of the warning lenses that help hold them in place. I carefully used an Xacto knife to gently loosen the lenses at these dimples.

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Tom Evans
69 280SE 91K (wish I still had it)
73 220D 98K
78 300D 134K
78 300D 185K
81 300SD 301K (still have)
82 300SD 321K (still have)
84 300D 268K
84 6.2 Diesel GMC Suburban 225K (a whole different story!)