CrazyOne01,
I am using something closer to 15 ft then to 6 ft. If I said 6 ft previously, I was lying

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Check the previous posts in this thread for how to test the thing. You want to look for resistance since it is the easiest to test for. Look at the diagram I posted eariler from the service manual of my car. It shows how to test the resistance of the steering wheel controls. You will need to do something similar.
According to the
PAC SWI-X document, you should just need to use 1 joystick axis and connect it to the (Gray/Black) wire from your stereo and connect +5v to the (White/Green) wire. You will also need to fake the other axis so it can be detected by windows (You can't have a 1 axis joystick). To do this just connect the +5v line to the second axis line like shown
here.