The U340E Transmission in your Yaris

[coolcat21]

Hey guys,

So I've recently purchased a JDM 2004 Toyota Allex.

Now as you know, in Japan they have lots of different names for lots of different types of cars. Most are not sold globally.

My Allex is basically a fusion of corolla and a yaris.
The frame/chassis is 100% corolla (if you google you'll see it's basically a euro corolla 9th gen).

Now the running year, I BELIEVE, is all yaris:

1NZ-FE engine
Transaxle : U340E
Tyre: 175/70/R14

This is all from the vehicle info on the door wall.

Does the majority (mostly US-bound) of Yaris in this forum from year 2004-onwards have the U340E ?

My question is about the characteristic of these transmissions.

Alot of people in other forums have said that the Toyota U-Transmissions (camry, rolla etc.) are nowhere near as smooth as the A-trans from the 90s.

And I think I agree with that alot.
My car has an electric p/s , electric throttle , abs, ebd, ba.

You can really feel the shift especially from 1st to 2nd.
Mostly this is if your feet is on the pedal somewhere between "light" and "heavy" , it jerks.
And it almost always jerks if you coast it from a dead-stop and let it shift to 2nd (from 1st) without any gas input. (slight downhill etc.)


Any of you guys experiencing this ? My tranny fluid looks pink, smells like candy. And on the stick there's a label saying "No need to replace under normal usage"