Leased Mercedes Loaner - came with run flats

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Hi LeaseHackr community!

I just leased a 2024 GLB 250 4matic. It was a loaner/demo car and has 9k miles on it (will post calculator soon)

I am reading if the car came with Run Flat tires, you have to return it with Run Flat tires. My lease is 3 years/10k miles. That means I will be 39k miles and it will be tight on tire tread depth.

My question is this-- where does it show car equipped with run flat? I dont see any mention on Moroney sticker. Does that matter?

I am thinking maybe I should pre-emptively change these tires to non run flat then throw them back on at lease end (and hope they dont dry rot in interim?)

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Itā€™s certainly one of the options to switch out for the duration of the lease then swap the run flats back on before lease end inspection and turn in. Iā€™d keep the run flats in the garage or out of sunlight to mitigate any dry rotting.

Even if is not on the Monroney, Mercedes knows what tires they equipped the vehicle with. It may be in an internal system.

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Not sure if you are overly optimistic or genuinely feather your pedals to extract so much life out of OE tires?

Iā€™d be at like 5/32ā€ on the second set of tires by then.

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Itā€™ll show Extended Mobility Tires on your window sticker or printout of options. Option code R66 (assume this is the same on all MBs).

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says ā€˜R02 All Season Tiresā€™

ā€“scratch that. Has R66 under that

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Yup, thatā€™s it.

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OK. So its on the sticker. Looks like I am tire shopping. I put General Altimax on my mother in lawā€™s Subaru Forester. I see they fit the GLB as well.

Before I start shopping, guess I should look up recommended tires for this car (or maybe go altimax?)

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Falken and general make some of the best value tires. Sometimes you can get some of the top names on sale for almost the same price.

This fall I bought Bridgestones for the same price as the value brands.

I also didnā€™t like Michelin LTX, for example, so I donā€™t believe you always get a better product with the better brand.

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Considering the black friday sales started, you are in luck for a deal

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Iā€™m reading my contract and thereā€™s no where it states that we have to replace run-flat by run-flat. Some verbiage state equivalent in quality and performance. Does it necessarily mean run-flat? TIA

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Hey, can you share a bit about what your deal was like? I am currently looking at a very similar situation - 2024 GLB 250 4matic loaner lease with 8.5k miles on it. First quote is $537/month with 3.6k DAS (MSRP43K after a ā€œprofit reductionā€ not sure what that means). Havenā€™t gotten any further discounts/rebates just yet. Any tips and levers to negotiate will be super helpful as this is my first car and am new to the whole leasing situation!