Thanks for the kind advice folks—much appreciated. The complication I discovered was that the last two screws securing the unit are rather diabolically hidden, requiring that the small “knee vents” at the bottom of the unit be removed to get at them. The other two are accessed through the plastic capped openings nearby.
Just to make things a bit more interesting, one screw head had been snapped off and the other three all were different sizes with different heads. The dealer-installers probably shouldn’t have been working for Mercedes.
The unit is out and I appreciate the guidance.