I feel you man. I love my car but being a full time college student also, I cant afford to keep up with it and at the same time I dont want to sell it. Been trying to get myself to sell it for 3yrs now and never went through with it. It's a love/hate relationship, haha. You dont seem to have too much of a problem though. Just the caliper, which is easy to replace and not as frustrating/painstaking
I wish I had that problem, rather than it being my clutch/tranny all these years. Somethings just never right with it.