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I'm not a powder coat guy so no axe to grind, but this doesn't look like an inherent problem with powder coating, but with process. Pops mentioned it in one of his earlier posts, it's very likely the coater didn't follow proper procedure between the base (color) coat and the clear top coat applications and therefore the two materials didn't chemically "crosslink". And since the base coat is so smooth, thus shiny, there's no chance for a mechanical bond. I know paints better. If any of you have painted epoxy primer/sealer for instance, the instructions state you need to top coat it within X amount of time or you'll have to scuff it so that the top coat has the irregularities caused by the scuffing to "hang onto". The base needs to be less than fully "cured" or dried so that the chemicals in each layer are still active enough to bond with one another to form a durable coating. I think the real lesson to learn here is who does the work is at least as important as what the material is.