How to Remove the Ikea Maximera Drawer

So I recently had an Ikea kitchen fitted as I really liked the configuration in particular of the drawers – they have a range of drawers in different sizes including some really useful 10cm deep drawers.

In fact you can choose whatever configuration of drawers that you want to fit into your units using the Metod bases and Maximera drawer carcasses.

Ikea Drawers
Ikea Drawers

In fact there are so many configurations in the Ikea kitchen that I changed my mind about what size drawers that I wanted in both of my drawer units! However, once I had installed the drawers I had trouble figuring out how to remove the maximera drawer from the rails and tried to Google to find that information but what I found fell short of helping me.

So for that reason I decided to inspect the one maximera drawer that I hadn’t put together to figure out how to get the drawer out. Doing this made me realise how to take the Maximera drawer out and I made a short video for anyone else who is trying to do this and is struggling:

In case you can’t see the video then what you need to do is find the two little clips that are quite near to the drawer front – they look like this:

Maximera Drawer
Maximera Drawer

There is one clip on either side of the maximera drawer and you need to push them both to get the drawer to release from the rails. You can then reposition the drawers where you want.

29 thoughts on “How to Remove the Ikea Maximera Drawer

  1. This was a great help! The first video I found was totally uninformative.

    Can you also tell me how to stop the drawer making various clicking noises now I have re-installed?

    1. Glad it was of help Angus. Hmm, I’m not sure about the clicking noises, sounds like maybe it has not gone back in completely? Is the soft close working fully? Otherwise i would just try taking it off and putting it back on again!

      1. Hi. I have one of those drawers and the plastic grey thing that the clips hold onto is broken. I have searched everywhere for a replacement part but no luck. There is one on either side that screw to the drawer front. They hold the door front on when the clips are engaged. This is the only image I can find of this particular ikea drawer. when I search Ikea maximera drawer I get something totally different. Any clues? Thanks!

        1. Hi Jim, I suspect you may have to buy a replacement drawer. At least you don’t have to get the drawer front too. It depends on how deep your drawer is as to which option you need but hopefully this link gives you the 3 possible depths – they have the small, medium and large drawers which work out at approximately 9cm, 19cm and 39cm once you have the drawer front on.

  2. Brilliant, thanks! IKEA customer service told us to ‘just jiggle it about’ until it came free, they clearly didn’t know about the clips.

  3. Thank you! Total life saver. I would never have figured it out and probably would’ve ripped it out in a fit. You’re a legend for posting this 🙂

  4. Thank you so much for posting this! I’ve been trawling other links for ages and they were all useless! You’re a star! Thanks for taking the time to post this information to help others.

  5. Many, many thanks! So easy when you know how. I spent hours on this, and ended up leavering the drawers out with a screwdriver. I will be writing to Ikea.

  6. Thank you so much for sharing this video,
    I had actually screwed out the drawer runners along with the drawer , and couldn’t figure how to get It back on .
    After spending hours searching for a solution, And finally coming across your video, me and my hubby took hold of each end and it came off so easily…
    Saved my sanity.

  7. Absolutely brilliant. Watched numerous videos before this but they did not help. This was spot on… So clear. Thank you.

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