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Flat Dish Steering Wheels: Every Flat Wheel We Stock, And When To Buy One

Ring us about a flat wheel and the conversation usually turns out to be about what is going behind it. Flat is the dish you buy when a quick release is in the plan, or when the seat has already gone back as far as it goes and you have not yet worked out how much reach you want.

We stock fifty three of them, which is more than any other dish type, and they run from a £90 wood rimmed OMP to a £944.95 carbon one. This page lists every single one with its millimetre figure, its diameter and what each brand is genuinely good at, then goes through the decision that actually matters once the dish is settled.

  • Fifty three flat wheels in stock across five brands, the biggest of the four dish groups
  • Flat means 0mm: the rim sits level with the mounting face on the boss
  • It is the dish to run behind a quick release, which adds about 60mm on its own
  • A spacer adds reach later from £28, and nothing takes dish back out of a wheel
  • Diameters run 250mm to 380mm, and on a flat wheel that is the real decision
Right-hand-drive track car driver using a Sparco P222 flat-dish steering wheel
A Sparco P222 in use. The flat rim leaves the final reach to the boss, spacer or quick release behind it.

What a flat wheel actually is

Stand a wheel on a bench and look at it edge on. The mounting face, the flat plate that bolts onto the boss kit, sits on one plane. The rim you hold sits on another. On a flat wheel those two planes are the same, so the dish figure is 0mm and the spokes run straight out sideways instead of angling towards you.

That is the whole definition. It says nothing about diameter, nothing about weight and nothing about how heavy the steering will feel. A 350mm flat wheel and a 350mm 90mm deep wheel give you exactly the same leverage. The only thing dish changes is where your hands end up in the car, and on a flat wheel the answer is: wherever the boss kit puts them, which is usually somewhere close to where the factory wheel sat.

0

The rim sits level

No gap between the mounting face and the rim. What the boss gives you is what you get, with nothing added and nothing taken away.

Diameter still matters

Dish and diameter are separate numbers. Once you have settled on flat, the diameter is the decision that changes how the car feels.

+

You can add reach later

A spacer bolts between the boss and the wheel and moves it towards you. Nothing will take dish back out of a wheel you already own.

The one wheel on this page that is not 0mm

Fifty two of the fifty three read 0mm. The Sparco 353 reads 36mm and is still listed as flat, and that is deliberate on our part. Sparco publish 36mm as the dish on the 353 and describe the wheel as flat in the same breath. We have kept their word for it because it is their wheel and their measurement.

It is a good illustration of something covered properly in the main dish guide: the four words are not defined against a millimetre range and the manufacturers do not agree with each other. If you are cross shopping between brands, work off the millimetre figure on the listing and treat the word as a label.

The number to shop onEvery wheel we sell carries both figures on its listing, the dish type in words and the dish size in millimetres. When two brands disagree, the millimetre figure is the one that is comparable.

Why flat is the safe buy when you are not sure

This is the practical case for a flat wheel and it is the one we make on the phone most days. Dish only goes one way. If you buy flat and find you want the rim closer, a spacer bolts in behind it and moves it towards you, and the B-G Racing six bolt spacer is £28. If you buy a 90mm deep wheel and find it is too close, there is nothing you can fit that will push it back. You sell it and buy again.

So on a car you have not driven with the new seat in yet, or a build that is not finished, flat is the position with the options still open. That is not the same as saying flat is best. On a finished car where you already know you want the wheel nearer, buy the dish and skip the spacer, because a spacer is another joint and another set of bolts to check.

The cheap way to find outBuy the flat wheel, drive it, and if you want it closer add a spacer. B-G Racing do them in 10, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100 and 120mm, so a single 60mm part puts a flat wheel exactly where a semi dish would have been, for £28. That is a lot less than buying the wrong wheel once.

If there is a quick release in the plan, buy flat

A quick release sits between the boss and the wheel and adds roughly 60mm of its own. That is already about where a semi dish would have put you, before the wheel has contributed anything at all. Stack a deep dish on top and you are a long way closer than standard, your elbows run out of room, and on a lot of cars the indicator stalks end up behind the rim where your fingers cannot reach them.

Flat plus a quick release lands in a genuinely good place. You get the reach of a semi dish and you get to take the wheel off to climb in past a cage bar or over a bucket seat. That combination is the single most common thing we sell into a stripped road car, and it is why this page exists.

Every flat wheel we stock, brand by brand

Five brands, fifty three wheels, all of them in stock as this page went up. Each table below carries every wheel that brand makes in flat, with the figures straight off the listings, and the cards underneath are a shortlist worth starting with.

See all fifty three with their photographsThe shop filters on the same dish figures this page is built from. Steering wheels filtered to flat dish gives you the full set with photographs, and you can stack a brand or a diameter on top of it.

OMP: twenty three of them, and the widest price spread

OMP is the reason this page is as long as it is. Twenty three of our flat wheels are theirs, and it is not padding: the range genuinely starts at a wood-rimmed 350mm classic and finishes at a carbon 320 that costs more than most people spend on the seat. OMP also only publish a depth figure for the wheels they class as dished, so everything here reads 0mm on their own data. The Mugello at £90 is the cheapest wheel on this page and it is a perfectly good wheel, wood rim and all. The Trecento and the Trecento Uno at £110 are the ones we sell most of to people doing a tidy road car. Above that the Velocita family is where it gets interesting, because you can have the same 350mm shape in plain aluminium or in Superleggero at about £226, and the difference you feel is in the spokes, not the rim.

WheelDishDiameterGripSpokesSpoke materialPrice ex VAT
OMP 310 ALU GT0mm315mmSuede6Aluminium£380
OMP 320 Hybrid S0mm320mmSuede3Composite£944.95
OMP 320 Uno0mm320mmSuede3Aluminium£229.90
OMP Asso0mm350mmLeather3Chrome£117.50
OMP Carbon S0mm320mmSuede3Carbon£650
OMP Cromo0mm350mmLeather3Chrome£117.50
OMP Formula Quadro0mm250mmSuede3Aluminium£145
OMP Indy Open0mm250mmSuede3Aluminium£185
OMP Indy0mm250mmSuede3Aluminium£167.77
OMP Kubic0mm310mmSuede3-£189.50
OMP Mugello0mm350mmWood3Aluminium£90
OMP Racing GP0mm330mmLeather / Leatherette3Aluminium£108.50
OMP Recce Superleggero0mm350mmSuede3Aluminium£235
OMP Sand0mm380mmLeatherette3Aluminium£117
OMP Super Quadro0mm320mmSuede3Aluminium£167
OMP Targa 3300mm330mmSuede3Aluminium£159.80
OMP Trecento Leather0mm300mmLeather3Aluminium£145.17
OMP Trecento0mm300mmLeather / Polyurethane / Suede3Aluminium£110
OMP Trecento Uno0mm300mmLeather / Leatherette3Aluminium£110
OMP Velocita 3800mm380mmSuede3Aluminium£185
OMP Velocita OV Superleggero0mm320mmSuede3Aluminium£270
OMP Velocita0mm350mm / 380mmLeather / Suede3Aluminium£172
OMP Velocita Superleggero0mm350mmSuede3Aluminium£226.45

Prices exclude VAT, the same basis as the product cards below.

MOMO: small wheels for tight cabins

MOMO’s flat wheels are almost all small. Nine of the eleven are 290mm or under, and the Model 12C and the Model 27C come in at 250mm and 270mm, which tells you what they are for: single seaters, sports prototypes, sim rigs and anything with a cage bar where a 350mm wheel simply will not go past your knees. The Mod.101 is the clearest case, an open-top wheel with the crown cut away so you can still see the dash. The two exceptions are the Model 31 and the Montecarlo, both of which go up to 320mm and beyond, and the Montecarlo is the one people buy for a classic where a flat wheel looks right on the column.

WheelDishDiameterGripSpokesSpoke materialPrice ex VAT
MOMO Mod.1010mm290mmSuede3Aluminium£237.99
MOMO Mod.110mm260mmSuede3Aluminium£237.99
MOMO Model 110mm260mmSuede3Aluminium£225
MOMO Model 120mm250mm / 260mmSuede3Aluminium£237.99
MOMO Model 12C0mm250mmSuede3Aluminium£174.99
MOMO Model 260mm260mm / 280mm / 290mmLeather / Suede3Aluminium£237.99
MOMO Model 270mm270mm / 290mmSuede3Aluminium£237.99
MOMO Model 27C0mm270mmSuede3Aluminium£237.99
MOMO Model 290mm270mmSuede3Aluminium£237.99
MOMO Model 310mm320mm / 340mmSuede3Aluminium£237.99
MOMO Montecarlo0mm320mm / 350mm / 380mmLeather3Aluminium£244.99

Sparco: the easiest range to shop

Sparco is the easiest range to shop because the numbers in the names roughly track the diameter. The P222 at £119.50 is the entry point and it is a lot of wheel for the money. The 215 is worth a mention on its own because it is a two spoke, which almost nothing else here is, and on the right car it looks far better than a three spoke does. At the other end the F-10A and F-10C are five spoke 270mm formula wheels, and the carbon F-10C at £310 is the one that turns up in hillclimb cars. The 353 is in this list with a 36mm figure against it, which is worth reading the next section about.

WheelDishDiameterGripSpokesSpoke materialPrice ex VAT
Sparco 2150mm350mmLeather / Suede2Aluminium£149.50
Sparco 3000mm300mmSuede3Aluminium£180
Sparco 3100mm310mmSuede3Aluminium£185
Sparco 350B0mm350mmSuede3Aluminium£162
Sparco F-10A Steering Wheel - 270mm0mm270mmSuede5Aluminium£190
Sparco F-10C Steering Wheel - 270mm0mm270mmSuede5Carbon£310
Sparco P2220mm345mmLeatherette3Aluminium£119.50
Sparco P310 Open Steering Wheel - 310mm0mm310mmSuede3Aluminium£182.50
Sparco R3300mm330mmLeather / Suede3Aluminium£159.50
Sparco R383 Champion0mm330mmLeather3Aluminium£175
Sparco 35336mm330mmSuede3Aluminium£183.02

Sabelt: four clean suede wheels

Four wheels, all suede, all 320mm to 350mm, and all of them flat. Sabelt is the range we point people at when they want a flat wheel that does not look like a track part, because the SW-732-733 has a flat bottom and the SW-833 is about as clean as a three spoke gets. The SW-633 also happens to be the flat member of the trio we used in the main dish guide to explain the whole idea, because Sabelt do the same wheel at 0mm, 65mm and 90mm.

WheelDishDiameterGripSpokesSpoke materialPrice ex VAT
Sabelt SW-6330mm330mmSuede3Aluminium£165
Sabelt SW-6350mm350mmSuede3Aluminium£159.50
Sabelt SW-732-733 Flat Bottom0mm320mm / 330mmSuede3Aluminium£195
Sabelt SW-8330mm330mmSuede3Aluminium£230

Reverie: 215 grams of bare carbon

The Reverie Eclipse 255 is the odd one out on this page and the most interesting thing on it. It is a 255mm bare carbon wheel that weighs 215 grams, which is roughly a fifth of what a normal suede wheel weighs, and Reverie publish a set-back of 0.0mm on their own dimensions table. There are four versions and the only difference between them is the drilling: undrilled, three stud on 50.8mm, the MOMO and Sparco and OMP 70mm pattern, and the Raid 74mm pattern. Buy the one that matches the boss you already have. If you end up with the wrong one, a B-G Racing spacer of 40mm or more will adapt 70mm to 74mm in either direction, though the 10mm and 20mm versions will not. And do not treat the undrilled one as a get out of jail card unless you have someone who can drill carbon properly.

Reverie do not list a grip covering because the Eclipse rim is bare carbon, uncovered. Prices exclude VAT.

The full list at a glance

All fifty three in one table, grouped by brand and sorted by diameter within each. Use it to shortlist, then click through for the fitting detail.

WheelDishDiameterGripSpoke colourHorn pushPrice ex VAT
OMP (23)
OMP 310 ALU GT0mm315mmSuedeGreyNot Included£380
OMP 320 Hybrid S0mm320mmSuedeGreyIncluded£944.95
OMP 320 Uno0mm320mmSuedeBlackIncluded£229.90
OMP Asso0mm350mmLeatherChromeIncluded£117.50
OMP Carbon S0mm320mmSuedeCarbonIncluded£650
OMP Cromo0mm350mmLeatherChromeIncluded£117.50
OMP Formula Quadro0mm250mmSuedeBlackNot Included£145
OMP Indy Open0mm250mmSuedeGreyNot Included£185
OMP Indy0mm250mmSuedeBlackNot Included£167.77
OMP Kubic0mm310mmSuedeBlackIncluded£189.50
OMP Mugello0mm350mmWood-Included£90
OMP Racing GP0mm330mmLeather / LeatheretteBlackIncluded£108.50
OMP Recce Superleggero0mm350mmSuedeBlackNot Included£235
OMP Sand0mm380mmLeatheretteBlackIncluded£117
OMP Super Quadro0mm320mmSuedeBlackIncluded£167
OMP Targa 3300mm330mmSuedeBlackIncluded£159.80
OMP Trecento Leather0mm300mmLeatherBlackIncluded£145.17
OMP Trecento0mm300mmLeather / Polyurethane / SuedeBlackIncluded£110
OMP Trecento Uno0mm300mmLeather / LeatheretteBlackIncluded£110
OMP Velocita 3800mm380mmSuedeBlackIncluded£185
OMP Velocita OV Superleggero0mm320mmSuedeBlackIncluded£270
OMP Velocita0mm350mm / 380mmLeather / SuedeBlackIncluded£172
OMP Velocita Superleggero0mm350mmSuedeBlackIncluded£226.45
MOMO (11)
MOMO Mod.1010mm290mmSuedeBlackNot Included£237.99
MOMO Mod.110mm260mmSuedeBlackNot Included£237.99
MOMO Model 110mm260mmSuedeBlackNot Included£225
MOMO Model 120mm250mm / 260mmSuedeBlackNot Included£237.99
MOMO Model 12C0mm250mmSuedeBlackNot Included£174.99
MOMO Model 260mm260mm / 280mm / 290mmLeather / SuedeBlackNot Included£237.99
MOMO Model 270mm270mm / 290mmSuedeBlackNot Included£237.99
MOMO Model 27C0mm270mmSuedeBlackNot Included£237.99
MOMO Model 290mm270mmSuedeBlackNot Included£237.99
MOMO Model 310mm320mm / 340mmSuedeBlackNot Included£237.99
MOMO Montecarlo0mm320mm / 350mm / 380mmLeatherBlackIncluded£244.99
Sparco (11)
Sparco 2150mm350mmLeather / SuedeBlackIncluded£149.50
Sparco 3000mm300mmSuedeBlackIncluded£180
Sparco 3100mm310mmSuedeBlackNot Included£185
Sparco 350B0mm350mmSuedeBlackNot Included£162
Sparco F-10A Steering Wheel - 270mm0mm270mmSuedeBlackNot Included£190
Sparco F-10C Steering Wheel - 270mm0mm270mmSuedeCarbonNot Included£310
Sparco P2220mm345mmLeatheretteSilverIncluded£119.50
Sparco P310 Open Steering Wheel - 310mm0mm310mmSuedeBlackNot Included£182.50
Sparco R3300mm330mmLeather / SuedeBlackNot Included£159.50
Sparco R383 Champion0mm330mmLeatherBlackNot Included£175
Sparco 35336mm330mmSuedeBlackNot Included£183.02
Sabelt (4)
Sabelt SW-6330mm330mmSuedeBlackIncluded£165
Sabelt SW-6350mm350mmSuedeBlackIncluded£159.50
Sabelt SW-732-733 Flat Bottom0mm320mm / 330mmSuedeBlackNot Included£195
Sabelt SW-8330mm330mmSuedeBlackIncluded£230
Reverie (4)
Reverie Eclipse 255 Carbon Steering Wheel - 3 Stud0mm255mm-BlackNot Included£570.50
Reverie Eclipse 255 Carbon Steering Wheel - Momo Bolt Pattern0mm255mm-BlackNot Included£570.50
Reverie Eclipse 255 Carbon Steering Wheel - Raid Bolt Pattern0mm255mm-BlackNot Included£538.50
Reverie Eclipse 255 Carbon Steering Wheel - Undrilled0mm255mm-BlackNot Included£570.50

Prices exclude VAT and are live at the time of writing. Every wheel here needs a boss kit specific to your car, which is a separate part.

Once the dish is settled, diameter is the decision

This is the part people skip. With dish fixed at 0mm the only number left that changes how the car feels is the diameter, and on this page it runs from 250mm to 380mm. That is a very wide spread and the ends of it behave completely differently.

Going smaller makes the steering heavier and quicker in your hands. On a car with power steering that is usually fine and often welcome. On a heavy car without it, a 250mm wheel will have you working at parking speeds in a way you will get tired of. Going bigger does the opposite and buys you leverage, which is why the 380mm OMP Sand exists for off road and why classic cars ran 400mm wheels as standard.

Cameron’s rule of thumb is to go down one step from whatever the car came with and no more, unless you have power steering or you have sat in a car with the smaller wheel and liked it. Dropping from a 380mm factory wheel to a 250mm race wheel in one jump is the change people most often ring up regretting.

250

250 to 270mm

Formula, prototype and sim wheels. Very quick, very heavy without power steering. The MOMO 12C and the Sparco F-10 pair live here.

280

280 to 310mm

The compromise most track cars land on. Light enough to be quick, big enough to park without swearing.

320

320 to 350mm

The biggest group on this page and the safest choice on a road car. Close to what most cars came with.

380

380mm

Leverage. Off road, classics and anything heavy with no power steering. The OMP Sand and the Velocita 380.

What we would actually fit

On a stripped road car with a quick release going in, the Sparco P222 at £119.50 or the OMP Trecento at £110 do the job and leave the budget where it belongs, which is the seat and the mounts. Neither is a compromise. They are just plain wheels that have been made properly for years.

On a car you are keeping and looking at every day, the Sabelt SW-833 or the OMP Velocita Superleggero are the two we would spend the extra on. The Superleggero spokes are noticeably lighter in your hands when you pick it up off the counter, which sounds like a small thing until you have held both.

Garreth’s view on the money is worth repeating from the main guide: dish costs nothing. A flat and a dished version of the same wheel are usually within a few pounds of each other, so the expensive mistake is never the wheel, it is buying twice. And if you are torn between flat and a bit of dish, take the flat one and keep the £28 spacer in your back pocket.

If you would rather not work it out on paper, ring us on 0115 9893488 with the car, the seat and whether a quick release is in the plan, and Cameron will tell you which diameter to be looking at before you spend anything. That conversation takes two minutes and it saves a return.

Common questions

Is a flat wheel harder to steer?

No. Effort comes from the diameter, not the dish. A 350mm wheel takes the same effort whether it is flat or 90mm deep. If a flat wheel feels heavy, it is because you also went down in diameter at the same time.

Can I add dish to a flat wheel later?

Yes, with a spacer between the boss and the wheel. B-G Racing do them from 10mm up to 120mm starting at £28, and Sparco do a single 50mm at £73. You cannot go the other way and take dish out of a wheel you already own.

Will a flat wheel fit behind my quick release?

That is the combination quick releases are designed around. The quick release adds about 60mm on its own, so a flat wheel behind one sits roughly where a semi dish would have without it.

Do I need a different boss kit for a flat wheel?

No. The boss kit is chosen by the car, not by the dish. What you do need to check is the bolt pattern on the wheel. It is 6 x 70mm on almost everything here, which covers MOMO, Sparco, OMP and Sabelt, and 6 x 74mm on the Raid pattern Reverie, which is the Nardi and Personal spacing.

Why does the Sparco 353 say 36mm but still say flat?

Because that is what Sparco publish. They give 36mm as the dish and describe the wheel as flat. We have not overruled them on their own product. Shop on the millimetre figure if you are comparing it against another brand.

Which is the lightest flat wheel you sell?

The Reverie Eclipse 255 at 215 grams, on Reverie's own published figure. It is bare carbon with no covering on the rim, and it is 255mm, so it suits a single seater or a sim rig far more than a road car.

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