The thule bars are cheaper and with money being tight and all.
Thule roof bars noise.
The thule aeroblade and rhino rack vortex bars both feature noise reducing strips that makes them almost silent in many applications.
The new aero foil cross bars provides a significant improvement in roof rack noise.
This breaks up the vorticies that create the whistling noise in the first place and is easier than repositioning your rack.
On some cars manufacturers have gone to a radio antenna with what looks like a spiral wire wrapped around it.
All roof bars will make some noise.
The same thing is happening on your roof rack.