Originally Posted by MikeR
You can drive it with no worries. The gasket is an RTV like material and they will pull the small cover, clean it all off, re-apply new gasket material and bolt it back on. After a few hours it is as good as new (or better). You should check the one on the passenger side also. It may have a slow/small leak also.
Good morning everyone. Just got back from the dealership. Good news in that the oil leak was diagnosed as a head gasket oil leak and corrected by torque to specification-left side. The gasket was not changed so I guess it was not necessary.
The bad news is my Xfire did not pass the emissions part of the inspection because the car doesn't have enough miles
I was told to drive it about 50 miles with a combo of highway and stop-and go and bring it back.