Before anyone says search, I have already looked at Christ W.'s great post with the pictures. The cluster on my 94 E320 won't come out (It needs to come out because the check engine light stopped working and I failed smog check because of this). I made the special hooks and even with two adults pulling on each side very hard the cluster won't come out more than a few millimeters. I concluded that something was blocking it from coming out. I asked a Mercedes mechanic at a dealership and he told me to remove the black panel above the brake and accelerator pedals to see if something was blocking the speedometer cable or something. Well I did but there is some much stuff under there it's impossible to see all the way to the cluster. The only was I would be able to see back there would be to remove the big piece of vinyl under the steering wheel that goes from the center console to the door but it seems too hard to get out without screwing it up. My question is, does anyone else have any advise before I pay the dealership $90/hr to replace a 50 cent bulb?