Some markets had a Valet key, which has no remote functions (so not able to set or unset the alarm).

I don't know if the 147/GT ever came with Valet keys, but that is what you would need to ask for.

Edit: just checked a GT Owner's Manual and Valet keys were given in some markets.

(page 6 of your manual)

 

If you can find someone to cut the blade and clone the immobiliser chip, then yes.
I was informed in one branch of Timpsons that some of the larger branches are now able to do this for Alfa/Fiat internal cut keys.

In short then, yes.

 

GT Key

Or get a key cut and lock the car with the key so you don't turn on the immobiliser.
Chris

 

Or get a key cut and lock the car with the key so you don't turn on the immobiliser.
Chris

The immobiliser will still be active.
It has nothing to do with the remote-locking/alarm.

 

Indeed, it is a separate system.

 

Thanks for the answers. I guess at least if I can get a suitable blank cut then I can lock the car with the normal key hidden inside.... Isn't on top of the sun visor the standard place for this? :lol:

 

I tried this as only had one key when i bought my old 147 and i wanted a spare. In the end i bought a blank blade off ebay had it laser cut to match mine and put in a spare key (also off ebay) which would open close locks etc but not start the engine because it needed to be programed to the car. If all you need to do is lock the car then this would work.

 

As I say, you could try a bigger branch of Timpsons.

 

Timpsons wont be able to help with the immobiliser programing. The chips in these keys cannot be cloned buy anyone. New immo chips need to be programmed directly into the system which is not somthing that timpsons stores do.

 

I'm fairly sure they can (they have the FIAT immo keys in store), and as it is a clone, it would not need to be programmed in.

 

Not a 156 key they cant. Type 2 immobiliser chip. Cant be cloned by anyone. Alfa know this and thats how they get away with £300+ for a new key. The old type one (GTV etc i think) can be cloned. Try Timpsons if you want but it def wont do the imobiliser!:thumbs:

 

I've been thinking about this actually David.
Although they do have the correct keys, I think that they must already have pre-programmed chips inside them, so they would have to be coded into the car - instead of the code being cloned onto the new key (which is what I was initially and wrongly thinking).

I'm aware that the Code1 system wasn't in the 147/156/GT, I was talking about the later internally cut keys from the later system. As I say, they do have these, so there must be a way of doing them.

 

Or of course, I could be wrong and they just cut them as 'valet keys'.