A VIN describes how a vehicle was built. It cannot describe where it was shipped, and no decoder anywhere changes that. The free GCC spec check reads your VIN, gives a verdict with a certainty score and the evidence behind it, and lists the physical and documentary checks that settle what the VIN cannot, starting with the GSO conformity lookup. The full VIN decoder returns every attribute the decode resolves, and the Mercedes-Benz page explains the scheme above position by position.
Common questions
Does a Mercedes Sprinter VIN show the model year?
Not on a rest-of-world car. Position 10 is the steering side, where 1 and 5 mean left-hand drive and 2 and 6 mean right-hand drive. Because those are all valid model-year characters, a decoder that does not know the difference will confidently report a year that can be a decade out. This decoder suppresses it and reports the Baureihe production window instead.
Why does my Sprinter show no plant?
Because the VIN does not say which plant alphabet applies. Mercedes reuses the same plant letters with different meanings across its passenger, van and smart ranges, and where a van chassis series appears under a passenger WMI there is nothing in the VIN that resolves the ambiguity. The decoder returns nothing rather than picking one of three possible cities.