You hit a pothole on a back road, or you misjudge a kerb outside a school, and one wheel is buckled or cracked. The other three are perfect. Almost every wheel supplier in the country will then try to sell you a set of four.
You do not need four. We sell single replacement wheels, and we have done for years, because pothole and kerb damage is almost always one corner.
Where to find them
Singles live in one place on our site: the Single Wheel Replacement range. Anything in there can be bought as one wheel. Everything else on the site is sold in sets of four, because a mismatched set is how people end up with handling problems and an MOT advisory.
A few that move fastest:
- 18x8" Mercedes AMG Sport Style, gloss black
- 20x9.5" Mercedes AMG Twist Style, black machined face
- 19x8" Ford Focus RS MK2 Style, gunmetal
- 21x9" Audi RS6 Style, gunmetal
- 20x9" Audi RS7 Performance Style, silver gunmetal machined
What we need to match it properly
A replacement that does not match the other three is worse than no replacement. Four things have to line up:
- Diameter and width. Stamped on the back of your existing wheel, usually as something like 8Jx19.
- Bolt pattern. Five studs on a 112mm circle is written 5x112. Get this wrong and it will not go on at all.
- Offset, written ET. ET45 means the mounting face sits 45mm out from the wheel centre line. A wheel with the wrong offset sits further in or out than the other three, and you will see it.
- Centre bore. The hole in the middle. Ours are machined larger to suit more cars, so most need a spigot ring. We include those free.
The quickest way to get all four is a photo of the back of one of your wheels, where the markings are stamped. WhatsApp it to +44 7753 828059 with your registration and we will confirm the match before you spend anything.
If you cannot get the wheel off, do not force it. Send us the registration and the year and model instead and we will work from the factory specification.
The honest bit about finish
If your other three wheels have been on the car for a few years, or have just come back from a refurbisher, a brand new wheel will not be an exact colour match. It will be close, but fresh paint and weathered paint are never identical, and a just-refinished wheel is usually a shade brighter than factory.
That matters less than people expect on a daily driver, and not at all on a spare living in the boot. It matters a lot on a show car. If the match has to be perfect, the honest answer is to refurbish all four at once and keep the new wheel as the spare.
When a single is the wrong answer
Two cases where we will tell you to buy more than one.
Staggered setups. If your car runs a narrower wheel at the front and a wider one at the rear, you need the correct corner, not just the correct design. Tell us which end it is for.
Two or more damaged. If you have kerbed two on the same axle, replace the pair. A mismatched axle affects how the car tracks far more than a mismatched diagonal.
For garages and body shops
This is the part most of our trade customers came to us for. If you run an accident repair centre, a tyre shop or a mobile fitting service, being able to order one wheel rather than four changes the economics of a pothole or insurance job completely. You are not carrying three wheels of dead stock to fix one corner.
No minimum order and no minimum order value on trade accounts. Details on our trade and wholesale page.
Cannot find your design
The single wheel range is a selection, not our whole catalogue. If the wheel you need is not in it, email sales@omiwheels.com or WhatsApp us. We hold over 2,700 wheel lines and can often supply a single from the main range on request.
Browse the Single Wheel Replacement range or the full alloy wheel catalogue.