Interestingly enough, i asked the bloke at Road and Rally to do the exhaust valve guides, given it was a 120k head and had been somewhat mistreated, and on checking the head he said that while there was a bit of play, he'd seen worse after fitting brand new guides so advised i didnt bother.
Given he was in effect turning down work, i figured what he said must have been true given his experience etc, yet every 1.8T head rebuild i read about on here seems to need guides... So either people are being overcautious and replacing guides that dont actually need replaced, or the bloke at Road and Rally didnt want to do the job for some reason?