thanks lads!!!! you have just saved me wasting money, i have just found a 99,000 mls ahl for £250 with a year guarantee so it looks like i'm going for that, also i have found an 'AHL' that the owner says was from a 1.8 passat??????? surely a 1.8 lump would have a different eng code? could it be a tryping errot and meant to read 'ALH'? i am now terribly confused, how many configurations can eng codes have???????