Got front discs and pads and rear shoes and wheel cylinders to replace... easy job for someone with very little experience? also want to renew the brake fluid while I'm at it... dot 3 or dot4?

DOT 4 fluid.

Discs and pads is a peice of cake, shoes and cylinders are a little more tricky.

While your tinkering with your brakes stick a Mk2 Golf 16v master cylinder on, improve the performance of the brakes, you won't have to put as much weight on the pedal to get the same result as if you were standing on standard brakes, make sense?

While your tinkering with your brakes stick a Mk2 Golf 16v master cylinder on, improve the performance of the brakes, you won't have to put as much weight on the pedal to get the same result as if you were standing on standard brakes, make sense?

no you have to press harder but the pedal movement is less.

While your tinkering with your brakes stick a Mk2 Golf 16v master cylinder on, improve the performance of the brakes, you won't have to put as much weight on the pedal to get the same result as if you were standing on standard brakes, make sense?

Hmm... could see it being a little tricky finding one for cheap thou no?