Gotta Replace the Whole Assembly!!

I took my car (Patty Cake) in to have my brakes inspected today, thinking it was going to be pretty routine stuff. I knew I needed stuff replaced because my car has been shaking violently when I hit the brakes at a high speed for a little while now. I figured new rotors, new pads, that's about it. Well they called me late morning to give me the verdict. Apparently, one of my calipers has been sticking, which is probably why my rotor went bad and why my car was shaking. They call it "warped rotors" but from what Eric says and what I read online, there really is no such thing as the rotor itself warping, just the brake pads basically burning their sediment forever on to the rotor, making it an uneven surface which really can't effectively be ground down or fixed. HOWEVER, the really bad news was that one of my wheel bearings was so terrible that my wheel can apparently lock up or pop off at any moment, and my car is now unsafe to drive. I have no idea how long it's been in this condition, but my guess is it's been a bit, based on some of the sounds I've been hearing while driving. Also, my rear brake has been leaking brake fluid in to the drum or something, which has been messing up the boot or the foot or whatever it's called (I'm exhausting my knowledge of car stuffs here, don't mock me!), so I need to replace both rear brake drums as well. So all in all, I've gotta replace front pads, rotors, and calipers, rear drums, and both front wheel bearings. Total for parts comes out to $485 something, and labor (when they do it) will be another $465. They have to order parts from the states which takes 7-10 business days, and then I need 6.2 hours of labor for the job, so the earliest they could book my car to be fixed is May 1st. Now my poor lil car has to sit there in the parking lot for almost a month waiting to be fixed because I can't drive it anywhere. At least Taylor and I are now on the same shift, so car-pooling is an option.

We are now considering selling the car in a few months and trying to get what I can out of it now before something else goes wrong. If I sell it now, I can say it has new front and rear brakes, new tires, new alternator, new thermometer and whatnot, and whatever the hell else I've had fixed recently. Blue book and NADA values listed aren't bad, so if I could get about that, I'd feel good, and kinda get back what I've put in to it lately. My fear is that since it's at about 239,000 miles, the transmission might not last me much longer, and I would like to get rid of it before that happens. I don't know, I'm just very hesitant to make a big purchase, but it might be worth it at this point. We'll see. Anyone who has any advice, feel free to send me a message or post a comment, let me know what you think. Also, I do love my lil Escort ZX2, and we've been through a lot together. I have put on about 200,000 miles since I bought it almost 6 years ago. There's a lot of memories and road trips on that slutty lady! So that was my day. Well not really, there were a lot of other aspects to it, but that was my main problem of the day. And now I'm spent!!