Probably the fogging is what saved you. Its good paint you just have to be careful with 2 tone paint jobs and mask twice so you dont spray one color over the other one. I saw somewhere that the clear will also craze the color coat. A guy complained on the website where they sold the paint. I think it might have been wallmart ,that he had ruined his out side plastic chair putting the clear over the paint. Rustoleums reply was that you have to clear basically right after the color coat is dry to the touch or it will , as they said, not give you as good a result. In other words craze the paint like crazy.