Gilly,
1. A few easy ones for you, I hope. I'm at 52K miles on my original rear ML320 ('99) brake pads, but I'm starting to build up the lip around the outside of the rotors. If I end up with sufficient rotor thickness (???) when my pads are finished out, can I slip in new pads or does this lip mean I'll also need new rotors at this point? I'm on my second set of pads up front and was already counting on needing to replace those rotors, but I thought I'd also be able to get 2 sets of pad wear on the rear rotors.

2. How much time do I have left, just ballpark, if the brake pad wear indicator lights up on my dash? Not that I plan on getting to that, but are we talking about 50 Miles (like a space-saver spare) or 1000 or so miles with a few weeks to sched an appointment before the grinding strarts? The owners manual doesn't help much.

3. How is the instrument cluster removed? 2 of 3 of the backlit digital readouts are burned and I wanted to relamp before the last one goes. Also how do you get to the bulbs for the AC/Heater controls, those are gone to.

Thanks for the help,

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