Powder coat, or paint...Rocker guards?

[Materdaddy]

my powder coating has held up to alot of impacts and scrapes only to scuff the coating and i buff them out.... but at the same time i see powdercoating chip easy on others.... is their a big diff in the quality out their? like the thickness? alot of shops i know reuse the powder that did not grab the first time... i only know that cuz my powder shop told me about how they only use fresh coating and dispose of the rest?

I'm wondering the same thing. I've seen all the posts in this thread talking about them both chipping off so why pay for powder coat? My Rock-It man rockers have taken quite a few hard hits and they only have two small chips (last time I checked) in the powder coat. The powder coating is good because it takes a hell of a hit to get it to come off. I've scraped on a lot of stuff that I KNOW paint would just come right off, that the powder coat holds.