Your attached thumbnails are not showing for some unexplained reason and the forum is not working correctly at the moment, which model and year Benz do you have? OH and is it LHD or RHD?
To remove the knobs you must remove the whole control unit. I have never had to do this so still not sure how the knobs come off but I know the whole unit has to be removed to do this job;
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