My bars are the thule aero bars with a foot pack that clamps onto the car’s full length roof rails.
Taking my roof bars off last night, I couldn’t get one to undo, the handle kept slipping on the bolt head.
It occurred to me that there might be a hex head under the plastic which is just clipped on over the bolt. There was and the problem was solved. But as it was so obviously easy to remove a plastic cover to undo a bolt, without breaking anything, what is the point in the lock? Surely that just overcomplicates things!?