And....he installed the "new" spare tire with the valve pointing down so the pressure can be checked when I come in for service and they perform a tire inspection! Dang, a young guy who's forward thinking! 
Over on another forum I'm on there was a pretty heated debate on doing that on pickup trucks. I've always installed the spare valve-side down, some were trying to argue I was opening myself up to damaging it when going off road. Given how much sidewall and rim-lip sticks out well past the valve stem though, seems like I'd have a gouged-out sidewall and a bent or gouged rim long before I ripped the valvestem off.
Another guy tried to argue about rust and the mechanism to lower the wheel, namely that without lowering it to check it, that the mechanism would rust and break when trying to get the wheel out. My counter was that if I have to lower it to check tire pressure, then I won't be checking tire pressure, and neither will anyone else. Given that I bought my truck used from a mainstream dealer (sells new Subarus) and they put four new tires on and changed most of the fluids and aligned it before selling it, and it was still clear that even they didn't lower the spare (it had rocks sitting on the rubber thing on top and the tire had left marks on the crossmembers that aligned with how it was when I lowered it) I can't expect anyone else to lower it to check either. A pressurized spare that has to be gotten out by breaking the lowering mechanism is preferable to a deflated spare that has to be gotten out by breaking the lowering mechanism.
