Does the VW 2004 passat have a distributor?

[PhillipSe]

Have does the VW passat maintain its timing?

 

[HarleyDrive]

no the 4 cylinder has 4 ignition coils one on each spark plug fired by the ecu reading the crank position sensor, the 6 cylinder has six coils mounted together on the front of the engine with HT wires going to each plug, each coil is also fired by the ecu reading the crank position sensor