On the control arms of my maxima when changing my brakes i noticed i got these little threaded pieces...i didnt get a chance to take pics of any sort but if youve done your brakes im sure you know what im talking about.What are they for?

 

pics is better

 

Uhh...what? You will be very lucky if anyone knows what you're talking about without showing some pics.

 

I think he's talking about the steering bump stops,
which is why the turning radius of the 5.5 gen sucks so much.

lol but heck, who knows...

 

That could be what they are, do they have any sort of threads on them?

 

axel?
just take a picture already or find a pic of a max with it's wheel off and show us what you mean...
lots of things have threads on them.

 

Its the only piece that doesny have something connected to it on the front end behind the rotors....

 

well that's impossible. It has to be connected to something to even be there :P

I still vote bump stops. they're threaded and have an end cap on them

 

it is the steering bump stop. It's threaded because a little plastic cap screws onto it to prevent metal-on-metal contact on the LCA at full lock.

The little plastic bumpstop pieces are a couple bucks at the dealer.

/thread. Let me know if you want to post pics and I will reopen the thread, but that is definitely what you're talking about.