Horntones FX-550 -- Give your ride a voice!

FX-550

I opted to have a professional install for this item and I was glad I did. Although it was not exceptionally difficult to do the minimal wiring involved, I just didn't want to mess around with the placement of the speaker in the front of the grill. Overall, the unit works great and makes for a very unique car. I have a 2010 Transformers Camaro that is fully tricked out. Imagine when you drive by a group of kids and they see the car. They tug on mommy's shirt, but she is too busy to care. Press button number three for my personally loaded version of the Decepticon Hacking signal and mommy immediately stops what she is doing, whips her head around and does a double take. If I were to make one major improvement, I would do away with the hardwired control head and go with a wireless version. That would make this unit absolutely the best.

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This is a great option if you want a custom vehicle horn. It's easy to install and set up with a basic understanding of vehicle and automotive wiring. It also comes with a great set of instructions.

Definitely worth giving this system a try if you're even just a little bit curious.

Controller needs to be updated

A lot of fun, works great. Can be used for fun, good, or evil. Should only be used for fun and the good of mankind. Company has integrity as they worked with me on an issue, and it is a quality product. My only complaint is that the contoller inside the vehicle is a first generation late 90s technology. It would be much better with a more modern controller, more buttons, bigger screen that better identifies the various sounds, or better yet a touch screen. It also takes too long to switch to another menu....when driving and wanting to honk a special honk it takes too long to find the right horn sound. Installation directions could also be improved to be more user-friendly.

great deal

Having a blast with this unit lots of laughs and tons of comments from walkers.

Versatile horn with one disadvantage

This is the most versatile horn on the market. Instead of having a musical horn, a wolf whistle, a old time horn etc here it's all packed in one unit. Mine came with 40 preinstalled sounds. Rather easy to install it, if you ever have installed a stereo into you car, it's about same level on it. I am impressed about the loudness, the musical horn sounds just like it was from one of the real compressor driven musical horn kits. It has 10 horn buttons that gives you easy and fast access to the sound you want to play. But sometimes 10 isn't enough, especially not when it takes a few seconds to switch to a different sound bank and you have to take your eyes of the road while doing it. So if they ever do a second version with more horn buttons I will order it at once. You have to remember yourself which button has a certain sounds, cause the screen gives no info on this. The great disadvantage is that when you go to Horntones website to upload more sounds, you have to pay a credit (one credit = one usd) to upload the sound you want. For a horn in this price range the software should have been included and free. I haven't done it yet, but the day I does it I will carefully think over what horn sounds I want on which button and then just change it once. And it get's extra tricky for me that lives overseas and they just accept credit cards issued by banks within the united states of america. But except that, it gives my van the little extra I have been searching for and I love the horn.