When I took the dash and console out of my 82 300SD, I found that I reached a point where I was "going it alone" since the CD left out a number of steps. I tugged on the dash and had the same experience - discovered the screws holding the console to the bottom of the dashboard. I still haven't gotten it completely together, since someone in the past had apparently done the same thing and not been so delicate. They broke the plastic spacer that goes in between the console and dash. It hasn't been the same since...