Lesonal paint by Sikkens

that's sounds like an issue where using hardner in your basecoat really does help. I generally use about four different bases (mainly because of color matches). I use Diamont, PPG's DBC (Deltron 2000), Lesonal, and Sherwin Williams. I am down to spraying only SPI Clears now, as I find them to be excellent, and the cost is far less expensive than the conventional clears out there. I use SPI Universal Clear on larger areas, and their URO 2020 on smaller repairs. Back in 2005-2008 I was using a lot of diamont, but switched to lesonal mainly, because of prices. Than in about 2009 lesonal's prices got jacked, and I mainly went back to Diamont. Although I do like both DBC and Sherwin, their prices seem to be higher in most cases. Plus with the Sherwin basecoat, you need to buy the stabilizer, whereas, the other three brands, I can use the SPI reducer in them. I find over time that each company has some of their paint codes match up with the color chips they generally have on hand in regards to the variances within a paint code, while other times, not so great. I use to think one was better than the other, but lately I have found that they are all about the same in terms of color matches, with PPG DBC probably having the worse color matches. Seems almost everything in DBC needs to be tinted around. I would rank the others as Sherwin probably best for matching up variances within a paint code, followed by Diamont, than Lesonal. PPG's DBC gets last place for my vote in regards to the variance chips matching up right out of the box.