Besta drawer / problem with opening - not working IKEA

Hello everyone,

I am new here and have a question about the Besta drawer with push system.

I have mounted a 60x40x64 Besta carcass with a 38 and a 26 drawer. The additional screws at the very front of the rails are set, the drawers are hung in and locked with the safety levers. The height of the drawers was adjusted with the adjustment screws – so far everything is okay.

Now comes the BUT:

The drawers only open and close by pressing with some luck. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't (mostly it doesn’t). When closing, they sometimes latch only on one side, sometimes only on the other, very rarely on both sides. For both drawers, it mostly sticks on the right side. My question is whether the rails can be adjusted in any other way so that the push system works properly? I did not find anything about this in the manual, or I just didn’t understand it?

The rails are properly mounted and cannot be moved in any direction due to the specified drill holes. What am I doing wrong?

I am grateful for any help.

Hello, you really can't go wrong there. Exchange that crap.

Hello everyone,

unfortunately, I also have problems with our new Besta system. We bought it with 3 instead of 2 elements.

The doors are at the bottom and the drawers with the pressure system "Selsviken" are at the top, as intended by Ikea. For four whole hours, we have been trying to assemble them and are on the verge of madness. The doors fit, but the drawers simply do not. It is only a matter of millimeters, but they hang "too deep," so they are not flush with the upper edge of the corpus and also block the door. The slight adjustment with the wheel unfortunately does not help at all. We have tried everything, mounted the rail at different heights, and installed the drawer front the other way around, nothing changes. The drawer rails are correctly mounted, with the second front screw, etc., at the height of the 5th hole from the top (although we have also tried the 6th hole). Can anyone help?

Many thanks!

Hello,
that reads as if the front was installed as on p. 9 instead of as on p. 10.

Hello IKEA expert,

first of all, thank you very much for your answer. Although I had hoped there was another solution for it

We have now actually replaced the rails and installed the "soft-closing" ones instead. They now work exactly as they should

I have the Besta lowboards and also 2 drawers with Selsviken and the pressure drawer system. At first, I also had problems as described. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not, sometimes only on one side. That is definitely due to the adjustment of the drawer slide (small knurled screw). Also, check whether the front is straight. I had a front that was crooked by a few millimeters (placed a level on it and then saw the problem). Exchanged it and everything was fine.