Just got our Spectra out of shop after front end damage and this morning wife said she smelled gas. could insurance adjuster have missed something?

Do Not Call The Other Party. Have The Claims Adjuster Do There Job And Write A Estimate On Your Car. If Not Take Your Car To Three Or Four Body Shops And Have Them Do One For You. And Send The Estimates to the insurance company

You have a gas leak some where first of all, You must locate the source and get it repaired by a cert. shop or someone you may know who has the experience

Yeah.
Pine needles get into the heater box and clog the heater fan motor's "fan".
You also may have rodents in there,making nests.
The wife was smart to turn off the heater fan B-4 the fuse blew.

damaged the lower control arm of the suspension
the shop doing the wheel alignment is clueless as it is not possible to get the alignment figures with any damage and they should have given you a report to that effect
Take the car to an accredited front end specialist shop for a check of control arms , bent strut and have an alignment done on the rear first then the front
claim any excessive cost on insurance

Hello, First, you can try to call your Insurance company. Be sure to explain up front that your vehicle was tied up for many months since the accident and that the completion date of the repair is the "Returned to Service date".

This should help clear the way for a "Hidden" damage claim and also point out to the Insurance company that the Repair shop worked on the part immediately in front of the leak. Now I suspect the removal of the Vibration damper (which sometimes must be pried off) is the root cause of the oil leak.

If someone poked a screwdriver around the front engine seal to remove the Vibration Damper it could easily ruin the front oil seal by the crankshaft. The metal is not a hard metal and the casing could also be cracked by improper removal of the Vibration Damper.
They should have used a pulley puller for this task.

In either matter, if the oil runs out it can smoke the bearings, and actually the entire engine. (Lifters, Valve train, Camshaft, etc)

Your Insurance adjuster is your best friend for this. It is his job to make sure that the Repairs are complete. If the vehicle is damaged in the Repair process, then the Insurance company and Repair facility should fight this out with you being a non-combative interested third party.

Only after you fail to get satisfaction, should you need a Lawyer. Just find out what the Statute of Limitations is in your State to file a claim. The Lawyer should know who is to be sued and you need to have the long form of your Insurance Policy handy so he/she can tell if you agreed to Arbitration when signing the Insurance Policy.

I hate to see anyone cheated, and the Repair shop has caused more damage to the engine than he received to repair the Vehicle body. So that is why the Repair shop would be reluctant to help. But the Repair shop could stand to be banned from fixing your Insurers' future claims. Those economics can be harsh if you are insured with a Major insurer. Good Luck on this and I hope you find my Solution helpful.

could be you bent something , have the front end inspected, might even want to call your insurance if the damage is high

You likely have a pinched wire in your harness somewhere.
Those cars are prewired for Fogs whether you have them or not. If the wiring is pinched with another wire that carries current, it will backfeed through the system illuminating the fog indicator light.
That light does not normally have power with the key off, so knowing that it stays on with the key off, there is little other possibility other than a damaged section of wiring.
Take it back to the repair shop quickly so you can have a insurance supplement claimed.

if the wheel got pushed in and if the body is pretty damaged up than usually the unibody frame is going to be bent so more than likely they will total it

my wife kept smelling raw gas but i couldn't. problem was a tiny hole in the FRONT of the gas tank. i then remembered hitting something in the road some time back. insurance replaced it with a used tank. this hole was visible as a wet area around the hole. the hole it's self was so small you could hardly see it.just a possibility.......ray

I was having this same problem with my '02 Kia Spectra. It would run while driving, but would not idle unless I kept my foot on the gas. It took a while to figure out, and alot of money, but the problem ended up being the MAS (Mass Airflow Sensor). It is located around the air filter. It detects how much air is coming into the motor and is used to determine what ratio to mix the air and gas. I bought an $8 can of Mass Airflow Sensor cleaner and sprayed the heck out of it. Once I put the sensor back on, it was immediately fixed. It took all of 20 minutes to fix. Hope this helps.