Ikea Besta disappointing

We bought a few products from the new Besta. On the one hand, because it is quite versatile, on the other hand, because we have a lot of Ikea furniture and have always been satisfied with the quality. That has now changed dramatically.

It already starts with the drawer fronts. The plastic cam connectors, absolute junk. Then the adjustment options for the drawers, you tear your fingers on these tiny knurled screws. It’s practically impossible to make an adjustment when the drawers are filled and have therefore settled.

The drawers themselves cannot be pulled out completely. We use them as a storage for our CDs. The rear part of the drawer cannot be used because otherwise you wouldn’t be able to get the CDs out anymore.

It goes on with the feet of the carcasses. Normally, I know it this way: The threads of the bolts go all the way through so that you can adjust the height from the inside with a wrench. With Besta, you can only adjust the feet from below. So you lift, turn a few millimeters, put it down. Crap, still wobbles. So do it again until you finally get it right.

Back panels of the carcasses. Only conditionally suitable as a storage shelf for Hi-Fi devices. Because not deep enough, the cabling hits the back panel. Now IKEA certainly cannot consider the dimensions of all possible devices. But at least it should offer a suitable shelf cross to stabilize the carcass if you have to assemble it without a back panel.

So I am very disappointed. Ikea seems to have taken Roller as a role model here.

Regarding the adjustment of the feet, it is apparently the case that the two rear ones are adjusted from the inside with an Allen key and the two front ones are adjusted directly at the feet from below, see page 14.

Hi V*Bro

I partly agree with your complaints.

The plastic corpus connectors, the worst junk.

Yes, I was disappointed by that too. But my Besta furniture still stands. You don’t have to tighten them with brute force.

The drawers themselves cannot be fully pulled out.

That is admittedly sh**. The fact that there are no full extensions anymore is not well thought out. I still installed the old full extensions. They still fit, but the fronts don’t close flush with the new fronts. Since I only have 2 drawers in a lowboard, it’s not that noticeable.

Back panels of the corpus. Only conditionally suitable as a storage shelf for Hi-Fi devices. Because not deep enough, the wiring touches the back panel. Now, IKEA certainly cannot consider the dimensions of all possible devices.

These things aren’t designed as Hi-Fi furniture either. Be creative and drill the back panels where needed for cables, etc.

All in all, I quite like the new Besta – except for the missing full extensions.

Best regards, the Dowel, wooden dowel

The drawers are now 5 € cheaper, but the quality of the rails is much worse now. It would have been possible to continue offering a cheaper version with roller slide guidance if the market requires it. I consider offering the drawers only in the carcass color instead of black unnecessary nonsense. For the brief moment you open a drawer and see it, the color does not matter.

Hello dear ones,
I just registered here specifically to exchange ideas with you about the new Besta and to ask for advice.

My boyfriend and I recently bought new Besta furniture for the living room, three tall, deep corpses as well as a TV stand. Our walls and floors are uneven, so it took a while to align all the corpses straight. (Except for the TV bench, where there are no holes for the Allen key in the middle, by the way, the feet can be adjusted from the inside.)
Our problem now is that the cabinets warp as soon as the doors are attached, the bottom and top are horizontal, but the sides are tilted towards the door opening, the angles are no longer 90°. The back panel provides hardly any stability because it has too much play, inserted shelves also do not help at all.
Ikea indicates that the cabinets must be screwed to the wall. But we do not want to do this because at least one of the cabinets must be able to be moved when we lay cables behind it to the TV bench. And what do those do who are not allowed to drill into their wall at all?

In any case, the cabinets are unstable in themselves. Was that already the case with the old Bestas? Does anyone have experience with this or a tip on what can be done to prevent shifting/tipping to the side? You can hardly nail the back panel, neither to the frame nor to a fixed shelf.

I would be very grateful for any help!

Hello,
I found the previous BESTA carcasses quite stable in terms of sideways movement, which was also due to the grooves in the back panel. These are still there, so I am a bit surprised. An empty tall cabinet with doors already tips forward when you open a door. That already shows how sensible it is to fasten the cabinet to the wall. Several elements placed next to each other should be screwed together. That way, nothing can warp anymore.
You don’t lay cables every day, so it’s also not too much work to loosen a fastener once in a while.
By the way, drilling holes in the wall is part of the intended use of an apartment and cannot be prohibited. Just not too many wall plugs should be used.
I do not understand why you supposedly cannot drive a nail through the edge and back panel from behind.