Gotta love the clear coat.

I'll say you take more chances for failure with cheap stuff that name brand. The cheap stuff is a knock off, why not use knock off piston, rods and bearings in your motor? The big companies spend millions to develop and test their products vs some no name who reverse engineers there junk. I have always used brand name for over 40 years and never had a problem. I have used single stage decades ago that did everything everyone here is talking about and it was a brand name. This is not about clear being crappy. All paint can have problems for dozens of reasons, so lets not blame clear when every case is different and requires much knowledge about the paint job in order to diagnose it properly. Remember Chebys had paint pealing like crazy in the 90's. They were clear coat but it was the waterbase color causing the problem not the clear. Clears are not waterbase and are better today than anything ever developed.